A little Chianti is a good thing

First, a brief remark about today’s blog post title.

One of our daytrips in Tuscany actually took us to many of the small villages in and around the region of Chianti (yes, home of the famous red wine). A leisurely and very sunny day allowed us to amble throughout the countryside from one little town to the next…picturesque to say the least.

The Chianti region is also home to the famous red wine that we associate with cheap Italian restaurant, lit candles dripping wax from straw covered wine bottles, etc. In fact, the wine of the Chianti region has a good reputation and does not have the moniker of “cheap table wine” that many of us in the US associate with this wine.

First stop, Greve.

















(yes, Greve is the home of the Italian explorer, Verrazano, for which we are ALL familiar with …if you know your NYC bridges).









And lest we forget, this is not only wine country, but groves of olive trees mean that olive oil flows freely .