Cesani Vernaccia di San Gimignano

In the glass

Aroma: green apple, lemon zest, almond blossom, wet stone

Palate: green apple, almond skin, salinity, white pepper

Textbook Pancole Vernaccia: green-apple and lemon-zest brightness with the indigenous almond-bitter finish and wet-stone salinity.

What it pairs with

• Crostini di fegatini Find crostini di fegatini on TableJourney →
  Chicken-liver crostini and Vernaccia is a Tuscan local rite; bitterness of liver meets almond.
• Lardo di Colonnata on warm bread
  Cured pork fat finds the wine's almond bitter and white-pepper lift.
• Grilled white fish with lemon
  Lemon acid mirrors the wine's citrus; salinity meets the fish.

History

The Cesani Vernaccia has been bottled since the 1960s from the family's Pancole vineyards 6 km from San Gimignano. Vincenzo Cesani and the next-generation Cesani sisters (Letizia, Marialuisa, Sara) farm organically across 22 hectares.

1. 1951 — Guido and Annunziata Cesani acquire the first land parcel at Pancole
2. 1965 — First Cesani Vernaccia bottling

Facts

Producer

Azienda Agricola Cesani

Grapes

Vernaccia (100%)

Classification

Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG

Oak

Stainless steel, no oak

ABV

12.5%

Price

EUR 11 to 16 at retail

Drinking window

1 to 4 from vintage

First vintage

1965

Scores

• Vinous 90 (2022 vintage, reviewed 2024)

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