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 ...

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 ...

Finding good, inexpensive Italian red wines can be a challenge. Many great ones easily cost more than a hundred dollars a bottle. And even when you do find more affordable ones, making sense 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 ...

Visit the wine shelves of any California supermarket and you will find sitting there, untidy among all the fancy Italian wine bottles, a straw- covered bottle of Chianti. These quaint bottles, called ...

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 ...

The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. M&S Classics Chianti, Italy 2018, £8.50, Marks & Spencer Producers of ...

A few years ago I was talking to the sommelier of a high-end Italian restaurant in New York, and he complained that the hardest wine on his list to sell was Chianti. But why? He had no real ...

While there’s never a bad time to enjoy a glass of Chianti, there hasn’t long been a holiday in honor of this Italian red wine. National Chianti Day was inaugurated by Santa Margherita in 2020, and ...