A varietal Vernaccia from a distinct figure within the Tuscan wine world. The Montenidoli estate is owned by Elisabetta Fagiuoli, located on a mountain just above the walled town of San Gimignano. Now Tuscany as a whole is very red wine focused for the most part, with effectively only one traditional table white in Vernaccia di San Gimignano. However when Elisabetta noticed the marine fossil laden soils of the estate (much like Chablis) she realised that Vernaccia was capable of more than just young, inocuous white.
This can be seen with this bottling. The Vernaccia is hand harvested and after the press ferments with its skins for just shy of a week. This is enough to give the wine some texture while still drinking as a white. The fermentation takes place in stainless steel while ageing takes place in glass-lined concrete and in the bottle.
This textured, stately white has notes of citron, pears, chestnuts and buckwheat.
