![]() All the world's sparklers are open for tasting and discussion, from the genuine French Champagne to Cremant de la Loire and all the other French Cremants Italian Franciacorta, Prosecco or Asti Spanish Cava, or sparkling wines from the USA, Austria, New Zealand, the UK or any other wine producing region that puts bubbles in wine. Just in time for the upcoming holidays, we're popping all manner of sparkling wines for our monthly Wine Focus in our WineLovers Discussion Group. But its style is right on point for this ancient and deservedly popular Tuscan red table wine. Its label is the farthest thing from old Tuscan tradition: It bears the familiar "365" logo of generic products packaged for Whole Foods Markets in the U.S. "365" 2007 Di Flora Chianti is a "benchmark" Chianti, too. Ruffino 2007 Chianti, a base-line Chianti made by a large, old-line producer, is a label that I remember fondly from back in college days when it was one of the most reliable names in the wicker-basket wine. Today we look at two amiable and traditionally styled Chiantis that cost around $10 locally, perhaps a bit less in some competitive wine markets. Better still, you can still get it for a very reasonable, inflation-adjusted $10, and sometimes even less. Nowadays upper-end Chianti Classico Riserva can sell for $20 and up, while the modernized "Super Tuscans" approach or even pass $100 and up, and earn the kind of hushed, reverent respect once reserved for fine old Burgundies.īut here's the good news: Although the wicker bottle basket may be disappearing, the kind of happy, sunny and delicious Chianti that used to be in those old bottles, crisp and made to go with pizza or pasta or rare red meat, is still easy to find. ![]() ![]() A few months ago, in a Chianti fiasco, I wrote about the familiar old wicker-wrapped Chianti bottles that many of us remember as pizza wine from back in the day, easily convertible to a funky candlestick in the family room or Italian-American eatery.Īs I noted then, the fiasco bottle may not be entirely gone from the marketplace, but its lure has faded with the times. ![]()
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