Gourmets of Wine > Romitorio Di Santedame 2000 - Tenimenti Ruffino

http://viewitaly.blogspot.com [Italian's Insight to Travel Italy] The dinner and the wine finished all too quickly but they were a great combination and this wine has made it into our cellar. It is not an everyday wine, the retail cost will be about $50-55 but it is well worth a good home-cooked meal on a special occasion or with friends.

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http://viewitaly.blogspot.com  Italian's Insight to Travel Italy: Just about every nook and cranny of the restaurant is filled with bottles of wine from the Tuscan region. The view is suggestive, looking into the valley from the hills of Tuscany, but if the scenic view is the first thing that catches your attention this may not be the place for you. (via Cosmos)

[Wine.blogs.com] Wine Whys: most of which we never even see in the U.S. -- Chianti Classico and Chianti Ruffino are the most common to us, then there are Chianti Colli Fiorentini, Chianti Montalbano, Colli Senesi, Colline Pisani, and Colli Aretini (note the latter three are Chiantis, even though the word Chianti is nowhere to be found on most labels). But they're all made from the Sangiovese grape, which by the way you can also order in many places by name (but with different production standards), or you can get in a blend with Cab or Merlot in a Super Tuscan.

http://italianwinereview.blogspot.com [Kyle Phillips] The 2006 Chianti Classico Anteprima: Vintage... : when I tasted Chianti Classico at a show in Greve this fall, a number of producers told me they would keep putting white grapes into their vino d'annata until the prohibition went into effect, and I recently encountered a vino da tavola that was, I was told, the winery's Chianti Classico, without barriques and with 10% white grapes added. It was quite nice, in a lively, fresh, youthful key, and I wouldn't be surprised if some Chianti Classico producers who want their vino d'annata to be young, immediate, and ready to drink continued to slip some white grapes into the blend -- much like producers who wanted their Riserva to have greater depth and power used to omit the required 5% white grapes.

http://www.vinography.com [Vinography: A Wine Blog] Italy's Best Wines: Tasting The 2006 Tre... : The wine world is crowded with authorities on just about everything. Whether they are critics or friends, wine lovers can usually find someone who claims to know an awful lot about some particular thing in the wine world.

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