Top 100 wines of Vernaccia di San Gimignano - Page 2

Discover the top 100 best wines of Vernaccia di San Gimignano of San Gimignano as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Vernaccia di San Gimignano and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano

The wine region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano is located in the region of San Gimignano of Toscane of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vagnoni or the Domaine Vagnoni produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano are Chardonnay, Sangiovese and Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Vernaccia di San Gimignano often reveals types of flavors of citrus, mango or grass and sometimes also flavors of straw, grapefruit or caramel.

In the mouth of Vernaccia di San Gimignano is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 156 estates and châteaux in the of Vernaccia di San Gimignano, producing 254 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Vernaccia di San Gimignano go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks.

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Vernaccia di San Gimignano

wines from the region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of makroud, nanie's diced ham quiche or lili's gressins.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Vernaccia di San Gimignano

On the nose in the region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, earth or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, vegetal or non oak. In the mouth in the region of Vernaccia di San Gimignano is a with a nice freshness.

News from the vineyard of Vernaccia di San Gimignano

House of Hazelwood unveils autumn release

The first tranche of the range, drawn from the stocks of the Gordon family, owner of Glenfiddich and Balvenie distiller William Grant & Sons, sold out within weeks of its release in May this year. The second batch again comprises eight whiskies – four each in The Charles Gordon Collection and The Legacy Collection – priced from £950 to £4,900 per bottle. All are exclusively available to pre-order online. The rarest of the autumn releases is ‘A Singular Blend’, a combination of grain and malt ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

Vega Sicilia invests €20m in Galicia white wine plan

Vega Sicilia’s announcement of its project in Galicia brings an end to months of industry speculation over where exactly the company would make its first Spanish white wines. Spanish daily newspapers El País and Cinco Días revealed news of the construction of a new winery and the acquisition of 24 hectares of vineyards by Vega Sicilia, owned by the Álvarez family. Vega Sicilia confirmed that production would initially consist of two white wines: Deiva, a white Crianza (aged 2 years); and Arnela, ...