Why would a producer want to leave the Chianti DOCG, declassify their wines, and label them as IGT Toscana instead, foregoing the word “Chianti” altogether?

Here is Part 2 of our three part series where I’m telling you the THREE MUST-KNOW FACTS about Chianti. This one will make your life so easy, it’s not even funny.

Here is Part 2 of our three part series where I’m telling you the THREE MUST-KNOW FACTS about Chianti. This one will make your life so easy, it’s not even funny.

Back in 2008, before I knew anything about wine, I got a job at a winery tasting room. (I still don’t know why they hired me.) I was frantically studying and trying to become up to par with the formally-trained somms I would be working with.