CHIANTI
: The
first definition of a wine-area called Chianti was made in 1716. It
described the area nearby the villages of Gaiole in Chianti,
Castellina in Chianti and Radda in Chianti; the so-called Lega del
Chianti and later Provincia del Chianti (Chianti province). In 1932
the Chianti area was completely re-drawn. The new Chianti was a very
big area divided in seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli
Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina.
The old Chianti area was then just a little part of the Classico
area, being the original area described in 1716 about 40% of the
extension of the Classico sub-area and about 10% of all Chianti.
Most of the villages that in 1932 were suddenly included in the new
Chianti Classico area added immediately or later in Chianti to their
name
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(the latest was the village of Greve changing its name in Greve
in Chianti in 1972). The popularity and high exportability of this
wine at the moment of introduction of the DOC, 1967, was such that
many regions of central Tuscany didn't want to be excluded from the
use of the name. As a result the Chianti wine-area got about 10%
more territory. Wines labeled Chianti Classico come from the biggest
sub-area of Chianti, that sub-area that is including also the old
Chianti area. The other variants, with the exception of Rufina from
the north-east side of Florence and Montalbano in the south of
Pistoia, originate in the respective named provinces: Siena for the
Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the
Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane. In 1996 part of the
Colli Fiorentini sub-area was renamed Montespertoli.
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