Winemaker's notes
Your package will arrive at your doorstep within4 - 16 days
Palagetto will receive and pack your order (1 - 4 days)
The courier will pick up your order and deliver it straight to your door
Product details
About the wine and its characterCountry:
Italy
Region/Subregion:
Toscana/San Gimignano
Classification:
DOCG
Certification:
-
Grape:
Vernaccia di San Gimignano (100%)
Vintage year:
2023
Color:
Brilliant straw yellow with greenish reflections
Aroma:
Intense, enveloping, aromatic
Taste:
Elegant and rich, finish of remarkable persistence and freshness
Alcohol content:
12.5%
Sugar content:
-
Acidity:
-
pH-value:
-
Sweetness:
Dry
Contains sulphite:
Yes
Volume:
750 ml
Closure:
Agglomerate cork
Bottle:
Glass
Best Served:
12 - 13 °C
Food pairing:
Aperitif, Asian, Cheese - goat cheese, Cheese - mild and soft, Fish - lean, Fish - fat, Lamb, Poultry, Shellfish - flavored, Shellfish - natural, Veal
Food pairings by the winemaker
- Aperitif
- Asian
- Cheese - goat cheese
- Cheese - mild and soft
- Fish - lean
- Fish - fat
- Lamb
- Poultry
- Shellfish - flavored
- Shellfish - natural
- Veal
Vinification, winemaker's own words
Soils:
Clay, Limestone
Terroir:
-
Harvest:
Picked by hand
Fermentation:
New oak (33%)
Steel (66%)
Storage:
Old oak (100%) 4 months
Concrete (100%) 6 months
Winemaker:
-
Destemming and pre-fermentative carbonic cryomaceration of grapes for 12 hours. Subsequent soft pressing and static decantation, inoculation of cryophilic yeasts, initial fermentation in thermoconditioned steel at very low temperature. Transfer to second-passage French oak tonneaux until complete transformation of sugars and prolonged contact with fermentation lees with frequent batonnage, final aging in cement tank.
About Palagetto
Information provided directly by the winery.
Information
The roots of the Niccolai family and in particular of Luano Niccolai, founder of Tenute Niccolai, the first nucleus of the Palagetto Agricultural Company, lie in San Gimignano. From the first hectares of vineyards in the Santa Chiara area, near where the winery stands today, the company has gradually expanded to over 60 hectares of land, mostly vineyards and olive trees. San Gimignano is home to a wine that breaks with the tradition of seeing Tuscany as a land of only red wines: Vernaccia di San Gimignano, the white lady of grapes, surrounded by noble reds. There has been news of this grape variety, which also gives its name to the local DOCG.