Chianti Classico running for the title of Wine Region of the Year

Chianti Classico is one of the "nominations" of the prestigious American magazine Wine Enthusiast as the Best Wine Region of the year 2014, in the company of four other prestigious winemaking areas: Champagne, Sonoma Coast (California), Red Mountain (Washington) and New York State.


The editors of the Bible of wine Wine Enthusiast award the winning realities in the world of wine production. The winners will be announced in December and celebrated in January in a special Gala dinner in New York.

Chianti Classico is in the nominations’ list for best wine region of the year because Wine Enthusiast recognizes to Gallo Nero a great renovation, a revolution on quality that resulted in products of the highest quality with incredible values​​, while investment in clonal research, vineyard management and marketing have created a renewed vitality in the entire production area.

«Great is the satisfaction of the Chianti Classico Consortium for this nomination, the President, Sergio Zingarelli, said – Being selected as a symbol of dynamism and model of enterprise in the wine industry in the world is the crowning of our work and an award for the social compactness, for the courageous and intelligent choices taken together in the last few years, starting from Gran Selezione, to the review of the system of quality certification to the important restyling of our symbol of Gallo Nero».

There are many innovative initiatives on Chianti Classico, from the opening of a Gallo Nero wine bar on the first floor of the Central Market in Florence to the inauguration of a multipurpose center in Radda in Chianti, the Chianti Classico House that hosts training courses on wine for experts and novices, a wine brand of Chianti Classico and various events for lovers of the sector.