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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My introduction to the “World of Wine” occurred when I was in the U.S. Navy. Our ship was home-ported in Naples, Italy. With apologies to Tony Nasello, the “Lost Italian,” my first wine was a nice ...

When people gripe that wine is complicated, they could be looking at many places. But one of them would have to be Chianti. Italy has the DOC and DOCG regulations, where DOCG is considered more ...

Today, we are in Tuscany — one of the most popular among the 20 Italian regions — to discover more about the popular Chianti. Chianti is a famous Italian wine widely appreciated as well in California.

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 ...

For decades, the best-known wines of Italy came from the famous appellation of Chianti in the heart of the Tuscan hills. Then, suddenly, there was a resurgence of interest in making great wines. Areas ...

Stretching between Florence and Siena in the heart of Tuscany, the Chianti wine region is the romanticized Italy of daydreams: terra-cotta-roofed towns, wine-soaked dinners and vineyards stitching sun ...

A 1970s monument to modern architecture is sailing through the test of time in the picturesque hills of Italy’s Chianti region. The long, two-story villa, with strong horizontal lines and a flat roof, ...