The Towns
Eight Towns,
One Territory
The towns and villages of Chianti Classico, from Greve to Castelnuovo Berardenga.
The Chianti Classico zone spans eight comuni. Four lie entirely within it — Greve, Radda, Gaiole and Castellina in Chianti — and four only in part: Castelnuovo Berardenga, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Barberino Tavarnelle and Poggibonsi. Each has its own character, its own villages and its own wines; Panzano, a frazione of Greve with a valley of vineyards all its own, has a page of its own here too.
Greve in Chianti
The market town of the Florentine Chianti: an arcaded piazza, a Saturday market and four UGAs.
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Panzano in Chianti
Greve’s hilltop village above the Conca d’Oro, where organic Sangiovese and Dario Cecchini’s table meet.
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Radda in Chianti
The walled seat of the medieval Lega del Chianti: high, cool and elegant in the glass.
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Gaiole in Chianti
Castle country: Brolio, Meleto, Vertine and the abbey of Coltibuono in the wooded south-east.
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Castellina in Chianti
An Etruscan hill town on the Florence–Siena ridge, with the largest vineyard area of any UGA.
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Castelnuovo Berardenga
Chianti’s city of Sangiovese: warm southern slopes where the grape ripens fullest, just outside Siena.
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San Casciano in Val di Pesa
The northern gate from Florence: walls and towers, Machiavelli’s exile and Antinori’s cellar in the hill.
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Barberino Tavarnelle
The western comune of abbeys and walled borghi: Badia a Passignano, San Donato in Poggio, Castello del Nero.
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