The shift in Chianti is more than just a marketing rebrand; it is a structural move toward the "Burgundian" model of wine ...

A £6.99 ($9.45) Chianti from grocery store Lidl has been ranked among the best wines in the world — even beating out wines costing over twice the price. The Fortezza Dei Colli Chianti Classico Reserva ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about wine and spirits. A few years ago I was talking to the sommelier of a high-end Italian restaurant in New York, and ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. Chianti Classico, which is an appellation under Italian wine laws, is a ...

If you had to pick a wine to represent the entire country of Italy, a single wine out of hundreds of bottlings drawn from thousands of indigenous varieties, that wine would have to be Chianti. Of all ...

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 ...

Italian wines can be confusing. There are subregions within subregions of larger regions that sometimes seem like a square block in a neighborhood where a few guys happen to make the same style wine.