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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 ...

At the southern end of the Chianti Classico district are the vineyards of Barone Ricasoli. Now managed by the steady hand of Francesco Ricasoli, these ancient vineyards and the family that has managed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Francesco Ricasoli’s story is extraordinary, and not just in the context of the Chianti Classico heartland of ...

What is Chianti? An inexpensive red wine in a straw-covered bottle, sort of sharp, sort of thin, and not very interesting? Or is it one of the historic wines of Italy, which is now seeing a ...

Big and juicy with lightly toasted oak and plummy fruit. … ...

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AS WE TRANSITION from summer to fall, our weather, foods and wines change. It’s a cycle I always welcome because it keeps the table fresh, the air bracing and the wines red. For me, autumn has always ...

A blend of mostly sangiovese with 15-per-cent merlot and 5-per-cent cabernet sauvignon, Ricasoli's 2012 Brolio shows considerable savoury edge. There's classic Chianti cherry holding down the middle, ...