The “Collection” grows from two to three days to devote an entire one to the trade   This year, too, the stars will be the hundreds of bottles of Chianti Classico being sampled at the event devoted to one of the world’s most prestigious wine territories. The “Chianti Classico Collection 2012” will ...

We begin our first issue of 2012 with sad news. Tuesday, January 2 saw the death of Giulio Gambelli, one of the enologists most representative of our wine and of all Black Rooster territory as a whole. We would like to remember his passion for Sangiovese, the enormous importance of the ...

The Black Rooster fetes the new oil after a seesawing season weather-wise that in the end ensured a product of absolute excellence. And the rain finally came, just at the right time and in the right amount, without bothering olive growers harvesting their fruits. While 2011 will be remembered as a ...

CHIANTI CLASSICO OR SUPERTUSCAN   By Gianni Fabrizio. More than forty years have passed since the birth of the first “Supertuscans” in Chianti Classico territory. A story that began in the late 1960s and reached culmination in the 80s, a period when a number of wineries decided to make some labels free from ...