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The Project. Riserva Storica Panizzi – Ten Years After., features Vernaccia Riserva, which is being reintroduced to the market 10 years after its birth.
The idea was born more than 10 years ago, when the winery began reserving 10 percent of this label’s production for the long term, with the goal of creating a “library” of old vintages, intended exclusively for catering.
For us, the Historic Reserve Project means carrying forward the certainty that Vernaccia is a wine that makes the passage of years its strength and energy and that it might even outlive us, those who gave it life.
The inspiration came from Simone Niccolai, who succeeded Giovanni Panizzi as owner of the winery and who, from him, inherited the love and an innovative approach to Vernaccia. Niccolai says, “I was born and raised in San Gimignano, this is my land. With Panizzi, I had the opportunity not only to demonstrate the quality of the grape variety with vintage wine; but also to imagine it on par with the great white grape varieties that defy time. Therefore, in 2011 I decided to set aside a significant number of bottles of Riserva.”
The project saw its first realization in 2021, when Vernaccia Riserva Storica 10 Years After 2011 was presented. In 2024, we presented the 2014 Riserva Storica, with an event intended to be a long-awaited and special annual event for our loyal customers. Panizzi will offer the Riserva Storica 10 Years After edition every new year.
The time is the central factor of the Riserva Storica project that makes Vernaccia Riserva the witness of a vintage and its evolution. It brings to the present day traces of our territory’s history and human actions. For this reason, the project is much more than a challenge with time or the desire to demonstrate the longevity of this extraordinary grape variety, a characteristic that Vernaccia di San Gimignano has already cleared and well communicated, establishing itself as one of the great Italian white wines that do not fear the years.
Rather, the idea of the Historical Reserve arose from the awareness of Panizzi that after 10 years of maturation and refinement the product has grown, if not made better by time.
This project is for us first and foremost commitment. Un impegno di “sostenibilità” del progetto, che si concretizza nel garantire la disponibilità di bottiglie di più annate storiche, presso quella ristorazione sensibile che veicola un messaggio di valore dell’attesa della Vernaccia, che può regalare un’esperienza ancora superiore.
The project is a means for us to measure ourselves against the greatness of this grape variety and seek confirmation of Giovanni Panizzi’s revolutionary intuition. To build a library wine is a source of knowledge and growth for us, as it always allows us to acquire new information about wines and how they develop over time, helping to refine our work.
We like to think of the concept of Historical Reserve as something broader, something that goes beyond the wine in question and can be a source of experience and wealth for future generations. May our work represent a legacy for the denomination and for the entire community of San Gimignano.
Vinification: Soft pressing of whole grapes, fermentation, ripening and Aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Additional 8 months of aging On fine lees in steel before bottling. Long aging in bottle.
Climatic trend : Cool and rainy spring, then smooth course of the first part of summer with a fair amount of rainfall and excellent temperature ranges between night and day. Torrid and dry instead the month of August with warm nights. Structured wines with restrained acidity and a particularly intense savoriness.
Production : 8,000 bottles
Vinification: Soft pressing of whole grapes; fermentation, ripening and Aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Additional 7 months of aging On fine lees in steel before bottling. Long aging in bottle.
Climatic trend: The 17.5 °C recorded on Jan. 2 heralded a season in the sign of heat and drought, except for a wave of frost and snow in the month of February. Torrid and dry heat between mid-June and late August, with almost no rain.
Early harvest with lean crop. The wines, ready and fragrant but with structure,
They focus mainly on elegance and grace. ( to be reviewed )
Production : 10,000 bottles
Vinification: Soft pressing of whole grapes; fermentation, ripening and Aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Additional 7 months of aging On fine lees in steel before bottling. Long aging in bottle.
Climate trend : Rather cool and wet spring. Sprouting and Late flowering. Hot and dry until the end of July (very hot in the second half
of the month). Dancing August with significant temperature swings. Delayed harvest, but gave wines of both structure and finesse. Grapes with high acidity values
and remarkable aromatic potential: promising, savory wines of great impact and mineral incisiveness.
Production : 10,000 bottles
Vinification: Soft pressing of whole grapes with fermentation, ripening and Aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Additional 7 months of aging On fine lees in steel before bottling. Long aging in bottle.
Climatic trend: Vintage characterized by frequent rainfall, temperatures not excessive, little insolation and cool nights. Harvest deliberately very delayed to try to ripen the grapes as much as possible. The result is streamlined wines, With an excellent acid shoulder.
Production : 12,000 bottles
Vinificatione: Soft pressing of whole grapes with fermentation, ripening and Aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Additional 7 months of aging On fine lees in steel before bottling. Long aging in bottle.
Climate trend: Early regular season with fair rainfall. May to July. little rainfall, hot, even scorching in July. August rains rebalanced the
plants and abetted by a beautiful September there was excellent ripening that gave yielded structured wines.
Welcome to Panizzi House. Choose the formula you like best from the proposed tastings and our staff will guide you with competence and courtesy to discover the food and wine and historical riches of the San Gimignano area.
Loc. Larniano 1, San Gimignano (Siena)
Capital stock eur 10,000
Paid-in capital eur 10,000
C.C.I.A.A. Siena – REA 123810
P. VAT and Fiscal Code: 01142050523