On the pisan hills, among little here and there scattered
villages, you can find S. Scardigli's farm house "Le Fraine sul Lago"
italian wine. Its
name was born from the meeting beetween an agricultural tradition, which
keeps in memory the local cultivation of a maize named "Fraina",
and a landscape that presents us with a lake, which is today an oasis.The
farm house has 5 apartments, from 4 to 7 beds each, fully equipped (kitchenware
and linen included) and furnished in the style of the tuscan farm house
italian wine . Iron
beds, original restored furniture, beam and bricks ceilings create a pleasant
and comfortable atmosphere. Their name also recall the work of those farmer
who once lived here: "La cantina", [...].The year 1924 italian
wine saw the formation of the Consorzio per la difesa del vino tipico
del Chianti, a group taking as its symbol the black cockerel, the Gallo
Nero still seen on all bottles today italian
wine . The significance of this dates to a border dispute between
Siena and Florence, a dispute that saw the border drawn at the point where
a horseman from each city would meet on the road. They were both to set
out at the cock-crow, as indeed they did, except that the Florentine cockerel
had been starved italian
wine , and woke to greet the day considerably earlier than its Sienese
counterpart.The DOCG regulations of 1984 attempted to achieve what the DOC
ones of 1967 failed to do in terms of quality and consistency, and there
is no doubt that post DOCG Chianti is a much improved wine, however, many
growers still found the rules too restrictive and archaic. This led to the
rise of the so-called 'Super-Tuscans', wines made from the same grapes and
the same vineyards as traditional Chianti, yet made in a way and using blends
that 'flouted' regulations, and led them to be labelled as table-wines.
This didn't bother the growers overmuch as these wines (then and now) command
prices way beyond even the best Chianti Classico. Eventually, the regulations
were altered to allow these wines back into the fold italian
wine . Grape varieties that were outlawed are now permitted, and
the requirement to effectively ruin a wine by forcing the inclusion of white
grapes in the blend has lapsed italian
wine. Some interesting buildings were erected in the mid-1800's
following the international lines of 'metal architecture', such as the San
Lorenzo market by Mengoni, italian
wine (who also designed the famous Milan Gallery), Sant'Ambrogio
market building and the beautiful greenhouse in the Horticultural Garden
by Roster, who was also the author of the refined Tivoli gardens along the
Viale dei Colli. There are various theories as to the origin of the name
Chianti. The most popular has it that the word derives from the Latin clangor,
meaning the cry of a bird or a high pitched note from a trumpet, and that
this alludes to the wild and uncultivated countryside of the area, fit for
hunting rather than agriculture. Another far more mundane theory ascribes
the name to an Etruscan family of the area italian
wine , or perhaps a winegrower from the hills above Florence.What
is more certain is that the name was well established by the early fifteenth
century, although the wine known as Chianti in those days was almost certainly
a white wine. As late as the 1960's there was still a Chianti bianco and
even the DOC laws of 1967 allowed for 30% of white grapes in the red wine.
By the early 1900's the wines of Chianti had become very popular - or at
least the 'style' had, as a bottle labelled as Chianti may not have come
from Chianti proper, if indeed it came from Tuscany at all. On the pisan
hills, among little here and there scattered villages, you can find S. Scardigli's
farm house "Le Fraine sul Lago" italian
wine . Its name was born from italian
wine the meeting beetween an agricultural tradition, which keeps
in memory the local cultivation of a maize named "Fraina", and
a landscape that presents us with a lake, which is today an oasis.The farm
house has 5 apartments, from 4 to 7 beds each, fully equipped (kitchenware
and linen included) and furnished in the style of the tuscan farm house.
Iron beds, original restored furniture, beam and bricks ceilings create
a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere. Their name also recall the work of
those farmer who once lived here: "La cantina" italian
wine , [...].Each apartment has an independent entry, its own gazebo
for spending pleasant hours in the open air, and the barbecue for cooking
with fresh herbs, such as thyme, marjoram, rosemary, sage and chives italian
wine .
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