In 1398 the earliest-known record notes Chianti as a white wine, though the red wines of Chianti were also discussed around the same time in similar documents. ![]() A military league called Lega del Chianti (League of Chianti) was formed around 1250 between the townships of Castellina, Gaiole and Radda, which would lead to the wine from this area taking on a similar name. The earliest documentation of a "Chianti wine" dates back to the 14th century, when viticulture was known to flourish in the "Chianti Mountains" around Florence. In 1716 Cosimo III de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, legislated the first official boundaries of the Chianti region in what is today part of the Chianti Classico DOCG. Chianti that meets more stringent requirements (lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore, although Chianti from the Classico sub-area is not allowed in any event to be labelled as Superiore. Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4–7) may be labelled as Riserva. For a wine to retain the name of Chianti it must be produced with at least 80% Sangiovese grapes. In 1995 it became legal to produce a Chianti with 100% Sangiovese. In 1996 part of the Colli Fiorentini sub-area was renamed Montespertoli.ĭuring the 1970s producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti. Other variants, with the exception of Rufina north-east of Florence and Montalbano south of Pistoia, originate in the named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane. Only Chianti from this sub-zone may display the black rooster ( gallo nero) seal on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the Chianti Classico Consortium, the local association of producers. Wines labelled Chianti Classico come from the largest sub-area of Chianti, which includes the original Chianti heartland. Most of the villages that in 1932 were added to the newly defined Chianti Classico region added in Chianti to their names, for example Greve in Chianti, which amended its name in 1972. In 1932 the Chianti area was completely redrawn and divided into seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina. 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). ![]() The first definition of a wine area called Chianti was made in 1716. In the mid-late 19th century, Baron Bettino Ricasoli (later Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy) helped establish Sangiovese as the blend's dominant grape variety, creating the blueprint for today's Chianti wines. ![]() However, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine as most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask" pl. A bottle of ordinary Tuscan table wine in the kind of traditional fiasco formerly used for ChiantiĪ Chianti wine ( / k i ˈ æ n t i/, also US: /- ˈ ɑː n-/, Italian: ) is any wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany.
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