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Chianti: the wine and the region

Piero Fonseca

Perhaps not everyone knows that the name of the best known Italian wine - Chianti - refers to a region and not to a vine.


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Perhaps not everyone knows that the name of the best known Italian wine - Chianti - refers to a region and not to a vine.


Sydney-based, Tuscan-born sommelier Piero Fonseca explains.


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