Chianti

Tasting articles See Taking Chianti Classico seriously for the background to this collection of tasting notes spanning the vintages 2011 to 2007...

Inside information This is the first in a series of articles this week on Tuscan wines. See here for the tasting notes...

Inside information See the 55 related tasting notes in Anteprima 2011 – Chianti Classico. The annual presentation of the latest vintages of...

Tasting articles This is the first of Walter Speller's extensive reports from the recent Anteprima tastings of the latest releases in Italy...

Tasting articles The anteprima, or en primeur, tasting of Chianti Rufina last month can be considered either the very first or the...

Tasting articles While Florence recently played host to the first annual Wine Town Festival, celebrating the great wine capitals of the world...

Free for all Michael Schmelzer of Monte Bernardi in Panzano sends this report on last year's growing season. He and his American-German family...

Inside information Figures supplied by the Chianti Classico Consorzio clearly imply some sort of stabilisation in exports, where decline in the most...

Tasting articles See below for 117 tasting notes, many of them enthusiastic, on these first showings of these two superior vintages. The...

Free for all At least this is how the Consorzio of Chianti Classico yesterday announced the modification of the 1992 law that separates...

Free for all More signs of a stagnant or even declining international wine market come from the Consorzio of Chianti Classico. In a...

Inside information 2007 A mild winter was followed by a cool start of spring, with even weather causing early budbreak. Fears for...

Tasting articles This is Walter Speller's third collection of notes from last month's Collezione tasting in Florence, pictured here. CHIANTI CLASSICO 2005...

Tasting articles Below are two large collections of tasting notes on some of the most food-friendly wines in the world, the first...

Tasting articles These wines were tasted by Walter Speller at the Collezione Chianti Classico tasting in Florence described in Chianti country –...

Inside information Walter Speller’s ruminations on Tuscany’s most important wine, and the special tasting of it in Florence illustrated, marks the beginning...