Vernaccia di San Gimignano
According to many, the word "vernaccia" can be traced back to the name of Vernazza, an internationally renowned town in the Cinque Terre. The vine has been cited since the fourteenth century, and even appears in Dante's Purgatory. But like many grape names, such as trebbiano, "vernaccia" too should be seen as a generic etymology: "vernaccia" is the vernacular grape, i.e. "of the place", "local", a name therefore that is adaptable to many wine-growing realities and numerous grape varieties, both white and red.
Colombaio di Santa Chiara L'Albereta 2018
Colombaio di Santa Chiara Selvabianca 2023
Fontaleoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2023
Colombaio di Santa Chiara Campo della Pieve 2019
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A. Tofanari Vernaccia di San Gimignano Astrea 2017
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Fontaleoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva 2017
Grevepesa Vernaccia di San Gimignano Bertesca 2019
Rocca delle Macìe Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2020
A. Tofanari Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2019
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Casa alle Vacche Vernaccia I Macchioni 2018
Panizzi Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva 2015
La Lastra Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2019
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Vernaccia di San Gimignano
According to many, the word "vernaccia" can be traced back to the name of Vernazza, an internationally renowned town in the Cinque Terre. The vine has been cited since the fourteenth century, and even appears in Dante's Purgatory. But like many grape names, such as trebbiano, "vernaccia" too should be seen as a generic etymology: "vernaccia" is the vernacular grape, i.e. "of the place", "local", a name therefore that is adaptable to many wine-growing realities and numerous grape varieties, both white and red.
Vernaccia di San Gimignano is one of the noblest white vernaccias in Italy, and certainly produces the most important native Tuscan white. It has been cited since 1276 and celebrated by Sante Lancerio, the bottle-maker of Pope Paul III, and gives intense straw-coloured wines, with wide and elegant aromas of white or yellow fruit and almond. With evolution, to which this wine is absolutely suited, it shows hints of macerated flowers, candied citrus fruits, hydrocarbon, walnut husk and flint. On the palate, depending on the ageing, which can also take place in wood and after maceration on the skins, it is full-bodied, balanced, of excellent sapidity, persistent and full of character.