Virtuoso Life - July/August 2008 - (Page 60) TASTING NOTES THE Chianti’s Comeback Italy’s wine regions perennially top your list of grape escapes. Here’s a fresh look at one of the country’s most iconic offerings. BY ANTHONY DIAS BLUE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MANNY RODRIGUEZ T D SURVEY t he hilly, pastoral tuscan landscape between Florence and siena is almost mythic in its appeal, with its wooded crests, olive groves, and cypress stands; sprawling villas, medieval hill towns, and ubiquitous vines. this is the heart of chianti, italy’s best-known wine region. like the tumultuous history of tuscany itself, the wines of chianti have gone through their share of ups and downs, but today chianti is on a roll. as a wine-growing region, chianti was first officially defined in the early eighteenth century by an edict of the Grand duke of tuscany, cosimo iii de’ Medici – one of the first examples of wine legislation on record. But it wasn’t until 1872 that chianti wine in the modern sense was created. according to the chianti “formula,” which was True classics from the heart of Chianti. 60 V I RT U O S O L I F E STYLING BY PATTY KIM
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