![]() Sleepy hilltop towns and Etruscan castles are yours to discover on a vacation in Tuscany. Spend your days exploring the gorgeous Tuscan countryside that surrounds your vineyard hotel in Chianti. Many also provide swimming pools and restaurants serving fresh, clay-baked Italian pizza, doughy hot gnocchi, and moist steaks all expertly paired with one of Chianti’s many varieties of fruity red wine. Luxury hotels in Chianti will provide winetasting services in traditional Tuscan farm houses. In the "Chianti Classico" region – stretching from Florence in the north to Siena in the south – there are over 17,000 acres of vineyards primarily producing the sangiovese grape, which form the base of most red wine varieties in the region. Not much has changed in the last 700 years, and the region still produces the ruby-red liquid in this distinct way, as well as more traditionally shaped bottles. Traditionally, Chianti’s award-winning wine is served in fiasco-style bottles enclosed in a handmade straw basket. The first mention of Chianti wine dates back to the 13th century, and has been produced and perfected in the region ever since. Chianti Vineyard Hotels: Experience a wine paradise in the heart of Tuscany The birth of Chianti ![]() Relax, unwind, and enjoy the very best Italian wine with a Vineyard hotel in Chianti. Vineyard hotels in Chianti place you in the center of it all, servicing both vino aficionados and novices with equal enthusiasm, while surrounded by some of Italy’s most breathtaking vistas. Everywhere there are cypresses.Buried deep within the elegant Cyprus trees and rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside is the Chianti wine region, known for its stunning natural beauty and exceptional viticulture. In the lower hills, there is the exploitation of oak woods, on the higher hills those of chestnut and holm oaks. Like all rural regions of Tuscany, there is no monoculture and there are vineyards, olive trees, cereals and potatoes. In addition to the cities already mentioned at the origin of this region, the city of Greve in Chianti radically expresses its connection directly in its name or as Impruneta which claims the name Impruneta in Chianti although it is not an official designation. In 1932, the wine designation specified the production limits for Chianti Classico, which is a DOCG (in Italian "Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita", governed by Italian regulations). The villages of Chianti are often characterized by Romanesque churches and fortified medieval castles, signs of the ancient wars between Siena and Florence or as Monteriggioni, a fortified village north of Siena, on the ancient Via Cassia that leads to Florence. The territory of Chianti was initially limited, in the thirteenth century, by the municipalities of Gaiole in Chianti, Radda in Chianti and Castellina in Chianti and thus defined the "Chianti League" (Lega di Chianti).Ĭosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, even decided in 1716 to issue an edict in which he officially recognized the boundaries of the Chianti district, which was the first legal document in the world to define a wine production area. ![]() Poggio Amorelli, a typical winery of Chianti region.
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