2024 Montenidoli - Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG Tradizionale (750ml)

Montenidoli takes its name from the hill it occupies above the town of San Gimignano, an estate closely associated with Elisabetta Fagiuoli, one of the defining figures in modern Tuscan winemaking. She has been crafting wine here for more than fifty vintages, farming the property organically and building a reputation for showing that Vernaccia di San Gimignano can be far more serious and age-worthy than its everyday reputation suggests.

San Gimignano's Vernaccia has deep roots, first recorded in the thirteenth century and later celebrated in verse by Dante, and it became Italy's very first DOC in 1966. Tradizionale is vinified entirely in stainless steel, with roughly a week of skin contact that gives the wine extra texture and depth without any influence from oak, a technique central to Montenidoli's style.

The 2024 is a golden straw yellow, with herbal and almond aromas joined by stone fruit and orange zest. On the palate it is rich and dry, light to medium in body but energetic, with blanched almond and mineral notes carrying through a long, lingering finish. Pair it with raw or fried fish, oysters, or shellfish.