When Giovanni Panizzi based his eponymous property in 1979, he launched into a mission fuelled by the love for a really particular selection and appellation, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, and by the willpower to advertise its high quality and recognition. Panizzi stays one of many main champions of a historic grape whose magnificence, expressiveness and age-worthiness, deeply rooted in Tuscan historical past, are sometimes missed. The vineyard is now within the arms of Simone Niccolai who, as a agency believer in Giovanni’s imaginative and prescient, has renewed the dedication to putting Vernaccia amongst Italy’s main white wines.
Tuscany’s signature white
Vernaccia di San Gimignano grows on the tuff and sandstone-based soils across the village after which it’s named. San Gimignano’s iconic towers function reminders of the range’s lengthy historical past within the area, with references courting again to 1276. After being the primary Italian wine to be granted DOC standing in 1966, Vernaccia di San Gimignano was elevated to DOCG in 1993, affirming its standing because the main white wine of Tuscany.
Usually in comparison with Riesling and Assyrtiko, this Tuscan gem has a definite mineral character and refined aromatics, starting from recent white citrus to fleshy orchard fruit with floral touches. With age it develops honeyed and nutty nuances. Vernaccia’s poise, construction and affinity with oak make it naturally suited to supply age-worthy types, and a flexible meals companion.
Ardour for high quality
Vernaccia was the wine and selection first launched by Panizzi, and stays the core of its organic-certified vary, steered by a terroir-driven, sustainable strategy. Thirty three years since Panizzi’s first classic in 1989, the property’s expressions of the main Tuscan white grape are the article of extensive important acclaim, not least on the newest version of the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Panizzi’s Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG 2021, was praised by the DWWA judges for its juicy, ‘unforced and fluid’ character which earned it a Silver medal (91 factors). It represents the range in its purest type, fermented and aged in chrome steel, permitting the ‘crisp orchard fruit with a touch of lemon oil’ to shine. The Vigna Santa Margherita Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG 2020 additionally gained a Silver accolade (90 factors) with the judges seduced by the silkiness, ‘waxiness with some mature orchard fruits’ and ‘lengthy, creamy end’ of this single-vineyard launch from Panizzi’s founding plot.
Vernaccia’s complexity and age- worthiness was on full show within the Riserva Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG 2017, a Gold medal recipient with a 95-point rating. The barrel-fermented and aged expression was singled out by the judging panel for its ‘Burgundian’ character, with a ‘creamy textured palate’ and a ‘stony spine of saline minerality’.
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