In the glass
Aroma: yellow apple, white peach, almond, honeycomb
Palate: ripe apple, saline minerality, almond skin, candied citrus
The intense Vernaccia from 40-plus-year-old Pancole vines. More yellow-fruit weight and saline length than the annata, with the indigenous almond signature.
What it pairs with
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Pici cacio e pepe
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Pepper-and-pecorino pasta meets the wine's saline and almond bitter. -
Roast chicken with sage and lemon
Roast chicken skin and sage on Vernaccia's ripe apple and high acid. -
Aged pecorino with chestnut honey
Pecorino salt sharpens the candied-citrus lift; chestnut honey echoes the honeycomb note.
History
Clamys is Cesani's premium Vernaccia bottling, drawn from the oldest Pancole vines (planted from the early 1980s). Longer lees ageing and a brief used-oak step in selected vintages give the wine yellow-fruit weight and saline length.
- 2008 — First Cesani Clamys Vernaccia vintage
Facts
- Producer
- Azienda Agricola Cesani
- Grapes
- Vernaccia (100%)
- Classification
- Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG
- Oak
- Around six months on the lees in stainless steel and concrete, brief used-oak aging in some vintages
- ABV
- 13.0%
- Price
- EUR 18 to 28 at retail
- Drinking window
- 2 to 8 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2008
Scores
- Vinous 91 (2021 vintage, reviewed 2023)