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The hills between Florence and Siena have been producing wine for three thousand years. The black rooster of the Gallo Nero marks the original Chianti territory — and the finest expression of Sangiovese in Tuscany. We know the producers, the vineyards and the tables that make this zone worth a dedicated journey.

Vineyard estates, Chianti Classico and the season of the iris — the case for April in the country between Florence and Siena. There is a Tuscany of late summer, the parched-gold one of the photographs, and there is a Tuscany of April that almost no visitor sees. The April Tuscany is green — properly green, a green that the rest of the year does not produce — and it is wet underfoot, and the wisteria climbs the loggias in long blue ribbons, and the irises that the Florentines