DOCG
Chianti Classico DOCG
3 towns in our catalogue
Castellina in Chianti
Province: Siena · 578 m
A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Province: Siena · 351 m
A Chianti Classico commune at 351 meters between the Ombrone and the Crete Senesi, the last castle Siena built against Florence, in 1366.
Greve in Chianti
Province: Firenze · 236 m
The market town of the Chianti Classico zone on the Greve river, with a triangular piazza arcaded since the sixteenth century.
Catalogue note: only towns explicitly listed as signature producers of Chianti Classico DOCG in our curated index appear here. Many additional comuni inside the broader production zone exist outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.
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