Less experienced consumers tend to believe that a DOCG ‘Chianti’ wine and a DOCG ‘Chinati Classico’ wine are the same thing.
Nothing more wrong than that!
Chianti Classico is a wine produced in the Chianti area. You may recognize these wines very easily by the ‘black rooster’ logo on the neck of the bottles.
The ‘Chianti Classico Consortium’ applies much stricter rules to its producers in comparison to those applied to the producers of ‘Chianti’. Let us analyze these differences.
Production area: the Chianti Classico wine is produced within the borders of the namesake area only, whereas Chianti producers can implement their production also outside those borders, including some areas of the Tuscan provinces of Florence, Siena, Arezzo, Pisa, Pistoia and Prato.
Grapes: while the Chianti Classico uses black grapes only with a minimum basis of 80% of Sangiovese (the typical grape of the Chianti’s area) the Chianti wine can use also white grapes such as Malvasia and Trebbiano (in addition to the minimum basis of Sangiovese which is 75% in this case).
Quality standard: without...
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