The Chianti Road to Greve In Chianti via Radda
Table of Contents: The Chianti Road
- The Chianti Road in Tuscany, Italy
- Map of the Chianti Road, Tuscany
- Vineyards in Chianti
- Tuscany
- European Photos
- Other Places in Tuscany
- Italian Photos
- Places to Stay and eat on the Chianti Road
- Guide Books
- Featured Lensmaster
- Chianti
- Chianti Books
- Chianti on Wikipedia
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The Chianti Road in Tuscany, Italy
Vineyards in Chianti

Tuscany
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Tuscany, Italy: Beautiful Countryside, Art, History and Wine
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Tuscany is beautiful part of Italy; a favourite destination for British and American tourists. The many picturesque medieval hill towns are relatively close together, separated by beautiful countyside, rolling hills, olive groves and vineyards making...
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San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy
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San Gimignano is one of the many small walled medieval hill towns in Tuscany, northern Italy, not far from Sienna and Pisa. It is often referred to as "The Manhattan of Italy" because of the many towers, although these date from medieval times and ar...
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Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
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Volterra is a a fascinating medieval hill-town village in the beautiful Tuscany region of northern Italy. A perfect destination for a driving holiday. Volterra could be used as a base as all of the medieval Tuscan hill towns are close...
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Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
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Cortona is a beautiful medieval hill town in Tuscany withgood views of the the surrounding vineyards and across to the neighbouring italian region of Umbria and the lake, Castiglione del Lago. Cortona is an short drive from Montepuluciano
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Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
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Lucca is bigger than many of the other hill-top Tuscan towns and is the best place to go shopping, but still has the charm and history and big tree lines town walls and the famous tower with trees growing out of the top.
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Montepulciano,Tuscany, Italy
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The medieval hamlet Montepulciano is the highest hill town in Tuscany at nearly 2000 ft and has excellent views of the local vineyards. Famous for the excellent red wine of the same name (Vino Nobile Montepulciano). There are many places offering ...
Places to Stay and eat on the Chianti Road
e.g. Hotel and restaurant Fattoria di Montagliari where you can drink their wine (Fattoria di Montagliari Chianti Classico bottled in Italy by David Migliorini, Panzana www.montagliari.it)
Guide Books
Chianti
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Chianti on Wikipedia
Chianti is a red Italian wine produced in Tuscany. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl. fiaschi); however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most Chianti is bottled in traditionally shaped wine bottles. Baron Bettino Ricasoli (later Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy) created the Chianti recipe of 70% Sangiovese, 15% Canaiolo and 15% Malvasia bianca in the middle of the 19th century. J. Robinson (ed) "The Oxford Companion to Wine" Third Edition pg 162-163 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0198609906
The first definition of a wine-area called Chianti was made in 1716. It described the area near the villages of Gaiole, Castellina and Radda; the so-called Lega del Chianti and later Provincia del Chianti (Chianti province). In 1932 the Chianti area was completely re-drawn and divided in seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina. Most of the villages that in 1932 were suddenly included in the new Chianti Classico area added in Chianti to their name-such as Greve in Chianti which amended its name in 1972. Wines labeled Chianti Classico come from the biggest sub-area of Chianti, that sub-area that includes the old Chianti area. The other variants, with the exception of Rufina from the north-east side of Florence and Montalbano in the south of Pistoia, originate in the respective named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane. In 1996 part of the Colli Fiorentini sub-area was renamed Montespertoli.
During the 1970s producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti. In 1995 it became legal to produce a Chianti with 100% Sangiovese. For a wine to retain the name of Chianti, it must be produced with at least 80% Sangiovese grapes. M. Ewing-Mulligan & E. McCarthy Italian Wines for Dummies pg 147-159 Hungry Minds 2001 ISBN 0764553550 A Chianti may have a picture of a black rooster (known in Italian as a gallo nero) on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the "Gallo Nero" Consortium; an association of producers of the Classico sub-area sharing marketing costs.Consorzio del Marchio Storico Since 2005 the black rooster has been the emblem of the Chianti Classico producers association.Consorzio del vino Chianti Classico Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4-7), may be labeled as Riserva. Chianti that meets more stringent requirements (lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labeled as Chianti Superiore. Chianti from the "Classico" sub-area is not allowed in any case to be labeled as "Superiore".
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