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| The view out of the tasting room window (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea "De Garda") |
This can get to be a pretty boring tasting - it is one single grape (Vernaccia, white) ... so below you'll see what I deemed to be the best 4 wines in the sea of "sameness". 36 producers showing off one grape in usually two different versions: unoaked/fresh and oaked/weighty ... there were also the random few who brought along an aged version - and all of them brought along their newest 2014 (some from tank and some freshly bottled - as little as 10 days ago).
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| Falchini 2013 Vernaccia di San Gimignano "Ab Vinea Doni" (Best Wine of the Day)Translate into "Gifts from the Vineyard" 5% Chardonnay is added - Fermented and aged in oak: 4-6 months the Chardonnay adds some roundness and completes the wine: beeswax, floral and honey notes with a nice peach pot finish (*** 1/2+) |
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| Lucil Libanio 2013 Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva "Mareterra" Translate roughly into "Sea and land/earth" 100% Vernaccia aged 3 months new oak nice creamy texture on the palate with pineapple puree, touch of Mac apple and a pleasantly long, lingering finish (*** 1/2) |
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| Macinatico 2013 Vernaccia di San Gimignano fresh and clean with lots of white fruit: apple, pear, peach and floral (*** 1/2) |
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| Teruzzi & Puthnod 2014 Vernaccia di San Gimignano lovely pineapple and floral (*** 1/2+) |
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