Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dry red table wine made from a blend of different varieties of grapes, originally produced in northwest Italy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Properly, a red wine of Tuscany, grown in the region between Siena and Arezzo; as used in Great Britain and the United States, any dry red wine of Tuscany, or any Italian wine of different color which has a similar flavor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Tuscan red wine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Much of the wine world has banded together to recognize the true origins of wines-that champagne is from the Champagne region of France, chianti is from Chianti in Tuscany, chablis is from the Chablis area of Burgundy, and so on.
U.S. News 2009
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A related PS: Did anyone else chuckle at the irony of the Decanter promoting its “How to Analyse Colour” video at the bottom of the page where they announced the latest scandal in Chianti?
Wine trends of the Naughties – reflections through the wine glass | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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This is a woman who has spent a lot of time in Chianti, and has a lot to say about it.
Sasha Smith 2009
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In the meantime they put pressure on a small domaine called Santa Marcellina in Chianti because they had a “Marcellina” trade-mark among the many they had patented.
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This is a woman who has spent a lot of time in Chianti, and has a lot to say about it.
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This is a woman who has spent a lot of time in Chianti, and has a lot to say about it.
LENNDEVOURS: 2008
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GIDES had focused its attention on a villa in Chianti where Pietro Pacciani had worked as a gardener.
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GIDES had focused its attention on a villa in Chianti where Pietro Pacciani had worked as a gardener.
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Italy, Abe, and he says that he listened carefully to all the speeches which was made in Italian, Mawruss, and that once he thought he heard the word Chianti mentioned, but he couldn't say for certain.
Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905
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Italian rules demand that in order to obtain the designation Chianti, the wine must be at least 80 percent comprised of Sangiovese red grape and smell of violets, the news agency reported.
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