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07/20/2022
Tomorrow is…..
Open Bottle Thursday!
July 21, 2022
Tasting Time on Thursday 3:00PM - 8:00PM
Remember you can place an order now for this special....no need to wait til Thursday!
Featuring:
Il Palagione
 Vernaccia
di
San Gimignano
"Hydra"
2021
Tuscany, Italy
100% Vernaccia
Here is another great bottling Rande found this past May while roaming the hills of Tuscany!
Body, freshness, amazing!
We can’t believe how the stars all aligned perfectly to have the wine arrive in time for summer!
 Vernaccia is Tuscany’s noble white grape, renowned since the 13th century, in fact in 1643, Michelangelo wrote that the white wine made from the Vernaccia di San Gimignano grape
“kisses, licks, bites, slaps and stings”.
This wine is produced exclusively from Vernaccia grapes coming from Montagnana and Palagione vineyards.
Our Thoughts on this wine.....
Il Palagione is an historic farmstead dating back to 1594, set along the scenic road connecting San Gimignano to Volterra. San Gimignano is commonly referred to as the “Manhattan of the Middle Ages”.
 Certified Organic, The Vernaccia di San Gimignano Hydra (made with organic fruit), is light and luminous in appearance with simple aromas of white peach, melon, a note of raw almond and crushed mineral. The wine is snappy and streamlined in terms of mouthfeel with a bright and compelling personality. But don’t drink it too cold. Give it some time out of the fridge before drinking. Or start drinking and note how the exchange becomes less slap and sting, and more kiss and lick as temperatures rise.
If you talk to Giorgio Comotti who spends every day of the year in the vineyard to follow his Vernaccia, he will tell you that perfumes are everything … Great job Giorgio! Your wines are a triumph of fruit and flowers, delicate aromas, cheerfulness and elegance.
Food pairing: excellent aperitif accompanied by finger food or snacks, bruschetta, pasta dishes, salads, chicken all fish, crustaceans, fried food and fresh cheeses.
Our Regular Price $24.99
Special Sale Price
 Only $21.00 a bottle
or if you buy 6 bottles it"s only
$18.00
per bottle!
or $108.00 per six pack.
Don’t want to miss the sale?
Can’t make it Thursday?
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or Call us at
703-668-WINE(9463)
A beautiful white wine among many reds of Tuscany,
a bit about Vernaccia …..
Producing some of Tuscany’s best white wines based on its own variety called Vernaccia, San Gimignano is a small appellation to the west of Chianti centered around the romantic village of the same name.
Vernaccia"s intricate history is rooted in San Gimignano. The idyllic countryside upon which this vine grows was actually named Italy’s first DOC in 1966 (that’s right the first DOC before any of the reds we all love!) and to this day the only white DOC in Tuscany. The 13th century marks its first written record and the grape was celebrated widely in literature, namely poems by Dante and Franseco Redi. It is a variety that ripens later than most other white grapes, picking as late as October.
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