Chiantin.
/kiːˈanti/ 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.
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1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. 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.
1887 Athenæum 12 Nov. 635/3 He lived in Florence..when a fiasco of good Chianti could be had for a paul.
1916 Anzac Bk. 129/2 He keeps a Chianti that is first-rate.
1959 Chambers'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.
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