Chianti wine: Classico Collection

On February 13 and 14 at the Leopolda Station in Florence was held “Chianti Classico Collection 2017“, the presentation of the new year of Chianti Classico: 185 wineries, 87 of the Chianti Classico Great Selection and above all, 57 preview…

Tuscan wine tours with Angie

We think that quality is very important in every aspect, and as we saw,  the quality always reward. For this reason,  we  select our wineries carefully and we have built since 2003 special relationships with  small tuscan wineries producing  the Chianti Wine, the Chianti…

Oxygen into the Wine: good and bad factor

Where we talk about vineyards and wine, it is correct to speak of oxygen for wine, because oxygen into the wine, should be dosed with intelligence to create important “things”, sustainable and deeper: sometime it must be assumed in small…

Tuscany countryside: pruning season, when the past and the future meet

To Prune a vine has the main purpose of controlling the quality and quantity of grapes that you will want to collect: this is done by acting on the number of buds that the winemaker decides to leave on the…

Wine tour to Machiavelli’s Chianti Villa

“VILLA”: A WORD FULL OF MEANING In Italy we say “we go in villa” to say “we go to the countryside” to reconnect ourselves with nature; from the ancient Latin word “Villa” means tuscan countryside, farm and land. Many centuries…

Wood, terracotta, concret and steel: the wine houses.

IRON AND STEEL In Italy to say that a person is safe, at work, in life and love is said to “being in a iron barrel”, a phrase that is probably from ancient Rome when the soldiers were traveling with…

In the cellars of Chianti between wine bottles and natural corks

The Cork and the wine In the Chianti cellars, stored horizontally lie the bottles of wine that, after maturing in barrels, are making the refinement, that means … they are still working. If you take a Tuscany wine tour at…

The vines and their leaves

If you really want to learn about wine you have to learn about the vine, mysterious plant that enters into the depths of the earth, able to condense in a few ripe grapes the essence of the man-nature relationship, the…

Chianti: a comfortable “all wood” home

The Chianti wine has a bright ruby color, you can look through the glass, just before a wine tasting, aroma of spices and black berries and a strong and velvety texture. Minimum aging of at least 11 months and a…