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Two glasses of red wine with differing garnet hues side by side on pale stone, hazy hills silhouetted behind — Nine kilometres, two styles
Italy

La Spinetta, Barolo and Barbaresco nine kilometres apart

Two wines from villages nine kilometres apart, made from the same grape, aged in similar...
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A wicker basket of hand picked grapes beside a rusted hoe and a handful of dark soil, sunlight across terraced rows — Organic Chianti costs the grower
Italy

Buccia Nera and what organic farming costs in Chianti

Organic farming sounds like a single decision. You stop using synthetic chemicals, you get a...
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An unlabelled bottle on a terracotta sill beside a torn strip of parchment and a wax seal, cypress trees in hazy hills below — Antinori broke the label rules
Italy

Antinori and the wine that broke Italy's label rules

In the early 1970s a red wine left Tuscany with the words vino da tavola...
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An Italian wine bottle stands beside a torn rulebook page and scattered dried rosemary sprigs on terracotta tile — One rule made Super Tuscans
Buying Guide

How one rule created Super Tuscans and reordered Tuscan prices

Tuscan wine lists price four things in an order that looks arbitrary: Chianti Classico at...
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