2022 Fontaleoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.8 points

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  1/24/2024 - hosscrow Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A nicely aromatic wine with a lovely light gold color. Ample concentration with a powerful tree fruit nose of peaches, peach and apple blossoms, honeysuckle, and a bit of walnut bitterness. Tuscan hills, no coastal notes. Add honeysuckle to the palate. Appealing juicy texture with a medium+ acidity, in this wine that finishes balanced and long.

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  10/27/2023 - dbay Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very pale. On the nose - tarragon, fresh green herbs, minerals, lemon, green apple, pear. On the palate generous acidity, medium body, nice flavor concentraiton with ripe lemon, green apple, pear, sweet tarragon, wet stone. The finish lingers with some citrus and herbs. Great QPR, lovely wine.

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  10/9/2023 - Tranquility Base Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Good wine, actually one of my favorite Vernaccia. It has a nice balance of fruit and acidity. Refreshing. I think of the San Gimignano towers as I drink it.

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  9/26/2023 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  100% Vernaccia di San Gimignano. Vinified and aged in stainless steel. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite youthful yellow-green color. The nose feels ripe, youthful and sweetly-fruited yet not too primary with aromas of cantaloupe and ripe pear, some honeyed tones, a little bit of nutty almond character, light leesy notes of creaminess and a hint of sweet fragrant spices. The wine feels ripe, dense and juicy on the palate with a moderately full body and rich, youthful flavors of fresh nectarine and red apple, some stony mineral tones, a little bit of rubbery reduction, light honeyed nuances, a hint of spicy character and a touch of guava or some other exotic fruit. The medium-plus acidity feels a bit modest for a Vernaccia di San Gimignano, but it manages to keep the wine quite bell in balance. The finish is juicy, round and quite long with a ripe, somewhat sweet-toned aftertaste of nectarine and honeyed richness, some spicy red apple notes, a little bit of stony minerality, light rubbery notes of reduction and a hint of guava.
  
  A nice, ripe and tasty little white. Perhaps more about fruit and richness than freshness and precision, but the wine managed to work as a great allrounder with different kinds of Italian entrées and main courses. Nothing too memorable, but nothing to complain here, either. Solid value at 20€ for a full bottle in an osteria in Florence.

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  7/15/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Italy on shoestring (Prince Sydney, 40 Hansard Street): Quite green stone fruit, a little peach as well as a touch of citrus. Juicy, tangy, silky burr, slight alcohol warmth, simple, clean, pleasant.

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