The Chianti is a complex region of Tuscany. Just like any voluptuous complex land it also produces great legacies. The Chianti wine is a direct expression of the Tuscan land, just like artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo are a direct expression of the Tuscan culture and history. And of course art and wine making are not all that distant from one another. If the first takes the full fledged, and well-deserved, worldwide recognition with its most representative Renaissance artists, the second is just now receiving the appreciation that decades of hard work in the field are producing. The wine makers of Chianti have always kept a low profile, trying to make the best wine they could with their knowledge, without fuss or seeking celebrity. Making wine in Chianti is a real work, most of the times a hard one. Marketing wine is a new challenge for the Tuscan people that for centuries based their production planning on the consumption that could happen within the immediate vicinities of their farm. No one should be surprised then if large wine producers from the United States were able to see in Chianti wine making a huge potential that the naive small Tuscan producers could not. Although a large portion of Chianti is in the hand of foreign wine makers, the core and historic producing estates and families maintain the prestige of this wine and help the Chianti protection consortium keep the rules of wine making crystal clear and loyal to the ancient tradition. This way Chianti wine maintains a trustworthy quality that can only increase with time and its nowadays widespread fame.

For further detail please visit the following sections:

An Introduction to Chianti Wine

Chianti Wine Producing Estates