Chianti is probably one of the most famous and underrated Italian wine because a good Chianti seems to be difficult to find, and too many wine drinkers associate Chianti to the cheap red wine on a flask that filled supermarket’s shelves and restaurant tables in the 80’ or the cheap, tasteless, almost watery, Chianti available nowadays from supermarkets. Luckily, good Chianti wines exist and they do not come in flask, if they do, stay away, and can be seriously good red wines because not only they are made with the Sangiovese grape, a great grape, but they are also wood aged.
This chianti, made from organically grown manually harvested 100% sangiovese grapes from old vineyards cultivated in the province of Prato, is aged in big oak barrels to add structure and longevity to the wine without covering the grape characteristics.
