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TO TRY: Selvapiana Chianti Rufina DOCG 2014, €21.25 from 64 Wines, Glasthule and on 64wine.ie (91)

All three wines today are examples of one of Italy’s greatest, but currently slightly unfashionable wines, Chianti. Years of overproduction after World War II by unambitious co-operatives and wineries led to the widespread undermining of Chianti’s reputation. Great producers tried to escape the sullied Chianti name by inventing the Supertuscan category. A few other producers like Selvapiana ...