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Castelvecchio winery in Chianti colli fiorentini

Nestled in San Pancrazio, within the serene municipality of San Casciano Val di Pesa, Castelvecchio winery stands just 20 km south of Florence, making it an essential stop for anyone embarking on a Florence wine tour. As a beacon in…

Discovering Quercia al Poggio organic Chianti Classico

Chianti Classico wine produced according to organic standards: here’s the Quercia al Poggio business card, the farm in the municipality of Barberino Val d’Elsa, 38,7 km from Florence. One hundred hectares of woods, vineyards and olive groves are part of…

Most expensive wines in auction

Sometimes a very good red wine doesn’t vanish in a glass but it changes into a real value for the collector’s world. As a matter of fact, auction houses like Sotheby’s or Christie’s have a particular sector devoted to the…

Best Red Wines for Cooking

Best cooking wine. You could think you don’t need a good wine for cooking. But it isn’t true at all. The great chefs use the best ingredients in their recipes. Why shouldn’t you? We have to consider a point: good…

Best Red Cheap Tuscan Wines

The ocean of red Italian wines has no boundaries. In fact, there are excellent and ordinary wines, very expensive and cheap ones. How could you recognize them? Also, how can you decide which is the best red wine to drink?…

Good cheap wines

Cheap doesn’t mean necessarily undrinkable. No doubt you can be rarely disappointed by a 20 dollars and plus bottle of wine, but you may pay a little less for many good wines too. You don’t need to split wine into…

Tuscan wine colors, Chianti wine

White, red, rosé.. Tuscan wine color isn’t just one. By tradition it seems Tuscan wine has to be red. But it isn’t always true. Among Tuscan wines there are some excellent white, as Moscadello di Montalcino, Ansonica, Vernaccia di San…

Italian wine types

Can you believe in Italy there are 511 different grape varieties cultivated in almost all the twenty regions? Just guess, in the 2010 there were 440. The Italian registry of grape varieties continues to recognize wine grapes as soon as…

Italian Wine Regions: A Journey from the Rolling Hills of Tuscany to the Sparkling Waters of Sicily

Italy, a country synonymous with the art of winemaking, presents a diverse palette of regions, each boasting its own signature wines. From the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany to the historic vineyards of Veneto, the landscape of Italian wine is as…