If there is one Italian wine people know, it’s Chianti (pronounced "key-on-tee"). This lovely, medium-bodied wine is omnipresent in Italian-themed restaurants, supermarkets and wine shops. But ...

Reporting from Florence, Italy — At a London symposium one chilly night, there was talk of Italian wine and palm trees, warming our winter-weary souls. Then I was handed a glass of pale rosé by an ...

Everyone has their biases in wine. So I might as well admit one of my bigger ones: Sangiovese really leaves me cold. That rules out a lot of wines, of course. And no doubt this isn't the sort of ...

Finding good, inexpensive Italian red wines can be a challenge. Many great ones easily cost more than a hundred dollars a bottle. And even when you do find more affordable ones, making sense of ...

Reporting from Florence, Italy — There’s no bad way to see Italy. I’ve done parts of the country by train, by rental car and on foot, on multiple trips from Florence, Padua and Rome, and it’s never ...

Chianti Classico, a renowned red wine originating from the picturesque Chianti region in Tuscany, Italy, holds a distinguished status in the world of oenophiles. The legacy of Chianti Classico started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While other Tuscan winemakers trying to make a splash veer toward international varieties and IGT classifications, Giovanni Mazzei ...

Italy's San Donato in Poggio has been approved as a Chianti Classico Gran Selezione growing area. (Matteo Mescalchin/Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico) Perspective by Dave McIntyre This is not your ...

A few years ago I was talking to the sommelier of a high-end Italian restaurant in New York, and he complained that the hardest wine on his list to sell was Chianti. But why? He had no real ...