We could say that the Sienese Chianti area we enjoy today is the Land of harmony. It’s worthwhile pausing for a moment to consider the man-nature relationship.
It’s easy to say that the identity of Chianti lies in its wine, but it’s a simplification. Yet it is absolutely true that we are in a terroir that is among the most important, fascinating and famous in the world.
Woods and vineyards, isolated villages and roads that follow the merry morphology of a land that is reserved and proud of its blue blood: that’s how Chianti appears to the cyclist who ventures into this world, urged by the desire for discovery on magnificent roads that hardly know the noise of an engine.
"Pan d'un giorno, vin d'un anno", this ancient proverb marvellously encapsulates the cuisine of Sienese Chianti. Produce, seasons and territory, reflecting an economy that was once based on sharecropping and on sending products, ingredients and recipes to the town.
For years Chianti has been the chosen residence of various artists such as the American painter George d'Almeida, Leo Lionni, Maro Gorki - daughter of the great armenian/american painter Arshile Gorky- and Matthew Spender who, as Bernardo Bertolucci said, "Worked his Chianti smallholding in the morning and in the afternoon locked himself into his hayloft-studio to paint".
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It’s easy to say that the identity of Chianti lies in its wine, but it’s a simplification. Yet it is absolutely true that we are in a terroir that is among the most important, fascinating and famous in the world.
Woods and vineyards, isolated villages and roads that follow the merry morphology of a land that is reserved and proud of its blue blood: that’s how Chianti appears to the cyclist who ventures into this world, urged by the desire for discovery on magnificent roads that hardly know the noise of an engine.
The magic of Chianti pours persuasively from the bottles of that wine which the whole world envies.
"Pan d'un giorno, vin d'un anno", this ancient proverb marvellously encapsulates the cuisine of Sienese Chianti. Produce, seasons and territory, reflecting an economy that was once based on sharecropping and on sending products, ingredients and recipes to the town.
For years Chianti has been the chosen residence of various artists such as the American painter George d'Almeida, Leo Lionni, Maro Gorki - daughter of the great armenian/american painter Arshile Gorky- and Matthew Spender who, as Bernardo Bertolucci said, "Worked his Chianti smallholding in the morning and in the afternoon locked himself into his hayloft-studio to paint".