Chianti Classico (eBook)

The Search for Tuscany's Noblest Wine

Bill Nesto, Frances Di Savino (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96553-9 (ISBN)

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';An important new book on Chianti Classico: Winners of the Andre Simon 2013 award for their bookThe World of Sicilian Wine, Nesto and Di Savino have produced the investigative, scholarly and detailed book that Chianti Classico has long deserved. Nesto and Di Savino are brilliant historic investigators. . . . A must-read for anyone seriously interested in wine.'Walter Speller,JancisRobinson.com This book tells the story of the ancient land named Chianti and the modern wine appellation known as Chianti Classico. In 1716, Tuscany's penultimate Medici ruler, Cosimo III, anointed the region of Chianti, along with three smaller areas in the Florentine State, as the world's first legal appellations of origin for wine. In the succeeding centuries, this milestone was all but forgotten. By the late nineteenth century, the name Chianti, rather than signifying this historic region and its celebrated wine, identified a simple Italian red table wine in a straw-covered flask. In the twenty-first century, Chianti Classico emerged as one of Italy's most dynamic and fashionable wine zones. Chianti Classico relates the fascinating evolution of Chianti as a wine region and reveals its geographic and cultural complexity. Bill Nesto, MW, and Frances Di Savino explore the townships of Chianti Classico and introduce readers to the modern-day winegrowers who are helping to transform the region. The secrets of Sangiovese, the principal vine variety of Chianti, are also revealed as the book unlocks the myths and mysteries of one of Italy's most storied wine regions. The publication of Chianti Classico coincides with the three hundredth anniversary of the Medici decree delimiting the region of Chianti on September 24, 1716.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Preface
1. The Original Chianti
2. The Evolution of Chianti through Bettino Ricasoli: The 1600s to the 1870s
3. The Birth of Chianti Classico and External Chianti: The 1870s to 1945
4. Chianti Classico Enters the Global Market: 1945 to the Present
5. Chianti’s Hidden Roads
6. The Geography of Chianti Classico
7. The Secret of Sangiovese
8. Viticulture in Chianti
9. Enology in Chianti
10. Chianti Classico Winegrowers by Subzone
11. The Medici Code
Afterword

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Schlagworte: academic • Chianti • Chianti Classico • chianti grapes • chianti wine • cosimo medici • growing wine • growing wine grapes • Historical • History of Wine • Italian Wine • Medici • modern wine • Sangiovese • scholarly • sicilian wine • Tuscany • types of wine • varieties of wine • wine book • wine grapes • winegrower • wine lover • Wine regions • wine types
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96553-1 / 0520965531
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96553-9 / 9780520965539