The “Gallo nero”: history, stories and wine!

The black rooster is the symbol of Chianti and the historic brand of the consortium of producers of Chianti Classico wine! A legend tells that the territory of Chianti between Florence and Siena was for a long time the subject of disputes and to put an end to all this and establish a definitive border was adopted a very unique system. The two knights, after having left the two cities, would have fixed the border at the meeting point; the starting signal was the crowing of the rooster in each city; the choice of the rooster would have been more...