Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva DOCG

Time challenge.

Single vineyard.

Vernaccia Riserva is Panizzi's historic wine and requires very special care in its production. Elevated in barrels, Panizzi's Vernaccia Riserva is our manifest wine and the best demonstration of this varietal's ability to evolve and hold over time.

GRAPE VARIETY

Vernaccia di San Gimignano

Vinification/aging

Soft pressing of whole grapes with fermentation, maturation and aging in new French barriques for 12 months. Then 7 months in steel and 24 months in bottle.

Sensory notes

Rich straw yellow in color, with greenish hints tending toward old gold. The bouquet is broad, aristocratic, highly variegated in a balanced initial blend of broom blossom and walnut husk, grapefruit and melon, fading into vanilla notes harmonized with the mineral hints of flint that develop in the long-aged Vernaccia.

Serving Temperature

13-14°C

Pairings

Shellfish and oysters, baked fish, saffron, blue and creamy cheeses, white meat, bird game.

Conservation

Will keep optimally for more than 20 years

Origin

Selection of the best grapes from a single vineyard at 400 m altitude located on a tuffaceous sandstone plateau. Hand harvest in the second half of September. Vineyard area 2 ha.

Soil

predominantly tuffaceous (sand) soils with variable presence of yellow clays

Training system

spurred cordon

Density

5000 vines/ha

Yield per ha

50 hl/ha

No. of bottles

8000

AWARD-WINNING VINTAGES

2020 vintage

94 Falstaff Trophy Central Tuscany 2024, 94 Decanter WWA 2024, 92 James Suckling, Gold @ Wine Hunter Awards Merano 2024

2019 vintage

95 Essential Guide by Daniele Cernilli, 92 James Suckling, 92 Decanter 2023, 90 IWC 2023, 3 Gambero Rosso Glasses (2023), Corona Vini Buoni d'Italia 2023

2018 vintage

96 Essential Guide by Daniele Cernilli, 92 James Suckling, 92 Falstaff Wein Guide 2023, 4 VITAE Vines 2022, 3 Gambero Rosso Glasses (2023), Corona Vini Buoni d'Italia 2022, 17 Vinum Magazine TOP

2017 vintage

95 Decanter WWA 2022 (gold), 92 Int. Wine Challenge 2022, 3 Glasses Gambero Rosso (2022), 5 Stars Wines Vinitaly 2022, Gold @ Merano Wine Hunter Awards 2021, 4 Vines VITAE 2021, Corona Vini Buoni d'Italia

2016 vintage

95 Int. Wine Challenge (gold), 95 Essential Guide by Daniele Cernilli, 3 Glasses Gambero Rosso (2021), 92 5Stars Vinitaly, Gold @ Merano Wine Hunter Awards 2021, 5 bunches Bibenda