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Chianti|kiːˈæntɪ|
[Name of the Chianti Mountains, Tuscany.]
In full Chianti wine. A dry red wine, also a white wine, produced in a specified area of Tuscany; loosely applied to various inferior Italian wines.
1833Redding Wines ix. 245 Chianti wine was formerly imported into Great Britain before that of Oporto had nearly excluded the other species, and the red wine of Florence continued to arrive after the importation of Chianti had ceased. 1887Athenæum 12 Nov. 635/3 He lived in Florence..when a fiasco of good Chianti could be had for a paul. 1916Anzac Book 129/2 He keeps a Chianti that is first-rate. 1959Chambers's Encycl. III. 394/2 Chianti wine..is an agreeable thin red wine..of the claret type, usually rather dry... Chianti is usually bottled in straw-covered flasks. |