the wines presented during the Chat with a Wine Producer
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- Wines produced:
Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG, Vermentino IGT, Rosé di Toscana IGT, Supertuscan IGT, Chianti Colli Senesi DOCG Riserva
- Vines:
Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Vermentino, Ciliegiolo, Verdea, Trebbiano, Malvasia del Chianti, Sangiovese, Colorino, Canaiolo
- Bottles produced:
50.000
- Cultivation / production:
Organically
- Vini Azienda:
Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva DOCG Production area: San Gimignano (SI)
Vineyard extension: 28 Hectares
Grape variety: Vernaccia di San GimignanoCertified/: DOCG
Altitude: 300 m above sea level.
Vinification: The perfectly healthy grapes are carefully chosen on the basis of the best sugar-acid ratio. After a very short maceration on the skins, the must obtained ferments at a controlled temperature in 7oo liter tonneaux, where it ages on its lees for a further 12/18 months
Aging / Refinement: in bottle from 1year up to 10 years
Colour: gold yellow
Perfume: evident citrus and fruity notes of peach and apple with a touch of vanilla
Taste: very rich, fresh, balanced and persistent
Fish dishes, fried and grilled. medium-aged cheeses.
Serve at 12°C- Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG
Production area: San Gimignano (SI)
Vineyard extension: 28 Hectares
Grape variety: Vernaccia di San GimignanoCertified/denomination: DOCG
Terroir: medium textured soil
Altitude: 300 m above sea level.
Vinification: Produced with the best Vernaccia grapes, harvested when there is the right balance between sugars and acidity, it is softly pressed and fermented at low temperature with subsequent long maceration on its lees
Colour: straw yellow
Perfume: fresh and fruity, with hints of apple, apricot and acacia flowers
Taste: harmonious, savory with a slightly bitter aftertaste
This savory white wine goes very well with hors d'oeuvres, soups and white meats,and it's ideal with fish-based dishes
Serve at 12°C - Rosé IGT Tuscany
Production area: San Gimignano (SI)
Vineyard extension: 1 Hectare
Grape variety: CiliegioloCertified/denomination: Toscana IGT
Terroir: medium textured soil
Altitude: 160 m above sea level
Vinification: Ciliegiolo vinified alone, fermented at low temperature with successive maturation on its lees.
Aging / Refinement: 1/ 2 yearsColour: brilliant copper
Perfume: Perfumed and delicate, with the right persistence, given by the salty vein
Taste: fresh, with excellent flavor. Right persistence, given by its salty vein
This versatile rosé wine is suitable for different pairings, from aperitifs to appetizers, to fish first courses also with tomato sauce, up to preparations with vegetables, such as omelettes or savory pies and cured meats
- Vermentino Bianco IGT Tuscany
Production area: San Gimignano
Vineyard extension: 2,5 Hectares
Grape variety: VermentinoCertified/denomination: IGT
Altitude: 220 m above sea level
Terroir: medium textured soil
Vinification: Obtained with Vermentino grapes, which after a short maceration are softly pressed. The must obtained is fermented at low temperature with subsequent maturation on its lees.
Aging / Refinement:
Colour: straw yellow
Perfume: Floral on the nose, fresh and delicate
Taste: harmonious and savory
Ideal as an aperitif or in combination with fish-based dishes
Serve at 12°C
Giovanni Boccaccio, one of the greatest exponents of Italian literature, lived a few steps from San Gimignano. The beating heart of Italy and its historical path towards the Renaissance passed right through here. The famous village is the world testimony of this and has been protected by UNESCO as a common heritage since 1990.
Chianti is a unique wine land, the center of the world of wine and culture.
Precisely in this precious corner of Tuscany , in 1826 a wine farm was being conducted with the sharecropping regime, widely used at the time. Third-party land management lasted until the early 60s when Dario and Giuseppe, with their respective families, invested their savings to purchase their own land.
The terroir of this area is world famous due to its composition of marine and volcanic origin. Remains of clay and salty sands give the Vernaccia di San Gimignano white wine a unique, savory, strong and dry flavour.
As far as the red wines of this wine area are concerned, however, the chemical composition of the soil gives them a solid structure, with opaque and dark tones, but at the same time delicacy and an compliant fragrance, unique in its kind.
It was the mid-1970s when their first wine cellar was built and, subsequently, in 1998 the the wine tasting activity was started, which is now the core of an established wine company. The wine farm was baptized with the name of a saint, the blessing to its future successful activity in the wine production sector. Giovanni, Andrea and Marco perpetuate the rhythms and passions without stopping, aiming for excellent wines, mixing the past with the present with love, with the awareness that the future makes its way between today's gestures and yesterday's teachings. Beside the Varnaccia di San Gimignano a particular care is given to the vines of the company's Vermentino, unique in its kind from its vinification to its fermentation process. The guest will not miss being presented and tasting a very special local Chianti wine too, very scented on the nose though dry and full in the mouth.
The company can currently boast a high-profile adequacy for the preservation of the environment and for its energy independence.
