Tag Archives: Chianti

Comfortable Chianti

A wine friend of mine, Jack, recommended this wine when we saw it pop up on one of those discount websites for almost half off normal price.  It’s the 2004 Brancaia Chianti Classico which I bought for only $20 (Jack, I saved you a bottle), but I have seen it upwards of $35 elsewhere.  This wine [...]

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Taste of Italy

I just joined some friends of ours, who just happened to recently get married, at a wine tasting/food pairing.  The theme was Italian wines mostly from the Piedmont and Tuscany regions.  I want to tell you about 2 of the 7 wines we tasted in particular because of their “value.”  Both of these Italian reds [...]

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