Romance Italian Wines for a Valentine’s Day Tasting
On February 14th fall in love with our extra special Valentine’s Day tasting. Whether it’s for a special someone you love or a gift for you, choose your favorite wine for this Valentine’s Day and drink it with the person you prefer. Purchase by February 1st to receive your wine case in time for Valentine’s Day.
This fantastic box includes 6 bottles of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and 6 bottles of Vernaccia di San Gimignano, ready to be delivered straight to your doorstep. Register on our website and earn points to reward yourself with other Torciano Products, many celebrations are around the corner, make sure you have your wine!
Vernaccia di San Gimignano Goldvine
In 2016 Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG turned 50 and celebrated its great tradition looking to the future. For this celebration, we decided to prepare a selected production of Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2018.
“GOLDVINE” by Tenuta Torciano is a fresh and delicate wine with an indisputably sweet character. Its complex notes start with cheerful aromatic bouquets of white flowers, such as pear and honeysuckle flowers, decidedly exciting, strengthened by a flowery accord of violet and ending with a full flavor of citrus aromas and a slight hint of almond that persists in the mouth with panache. Enclosed in a bottle-jewel, with a golden silhouette that recalls the typical Florentine architecture of the dome of Florence cathedral.
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Notes: Straw yellow color with a balanced, dry and fragrant flavor.
Nobile di Montepulciano
A full-bodied but fresh wine, which recalls luxurious classic flavors reinterpreted in the contemporary era. Essences of red fruits, cherries, a hint of licorice, herbs and blueberries make up a strictly personal symphony of aromas. The intriguing sweet spices give a well-defined, round and elegant taste with silky tannins and a long finish on the palate.
This wine is produced with selected Prugnolo grapes, characteristics of the Montepulciano area. The 2016 vintage was a regular season, with a slight maturation and a season finale with some rain. So, the result is a more elegant Sangiovese than ever, which enhances its earthy and spicy tones. The bouquet opens with aromas of berries with distinct mineral tones, which define and outline the aromatic offer. It reveals good complexityin mouth, its color is an intense ruby, a bright color tending to garnet with age.
The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is the ideal companion for game and aged cheeses. Excellent with pasta with tasty meat sauce, roasts, finely sliced raw meat and pecorino. This wine is the right choice to try a fantastic Tuscan wine that represents the original taste of this area.
Located in the heart of the Tuscan hills, Tenuta Torciano exists since 1720. Its history has seen 13 generations of winemakers who have been able to create high quality wines, where knowledge of ancient cultivation methods is combined with modern technologies. Today the historical production of the estate includes the most famous denominations of Tuscan wines located within the various properties: Vernaccia in San Gimignano, Sangiovese in the Chianti area, Brunello in Montalcino, Bolgheri in Livorno, Morellino, Malbec and Petit Verdot in Scansano, and also some olive groves, for the production of DOP and Chianti Classico oil.
Torciano products respond to the characteristics of quality, excellence and originality, with the aim of emphasizing the concept of “Made in Italy”.
Pierluigi Giachi is at the same time owner and oenologist of Tenuta Torciano and carries on the centenary tradition together with his wife Luciana and children. Tradition, passion, instinct and love are the principles that have characterized the management of the company by the Giachi, which in 2020 celebrates its 300 years of activity, during which the art of making wine has always been handed down from father to son.
2020 will therefore be a very special year for Tenuta Torciano. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the estate we will organize special tastings in the vineyard or in the cellar for all our VIP customers who will come back to visit us and themed events with lunches and tastings in the cellar or outdoors. Come and visit us on February 14, 2020 for the special Valentine’s Day tasting.
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Author
Luciana Cilemmi
Luciana Cilemmi, deals with Magazine, Style Director and Co-founder of Tenuta Torciano winery and Tenute Giachi wines and the innovative Viviarium Restaurant of Bottega Torciano- Tenuta Torciano & Winery is part of an international reality that is born in Italy by an initiative of Pierluigi Giachi and Luciana Cilemmi, who have worked for years in the Italian wine market , expanding throughout in the United States, managed and controlled by the american company ' Bellavini winery. Luciana Cilemmi was born in San Gimignano to a family of artists specialised in the restoration of medieval buildings. Having completed her technical studies, she now pursues the interests passed on to her by her family, like her passion for artistic objects, in particular works of art created in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. But she reserves her keenest enthusiasm for the historic works completed in San Gimignano between 1100 and 1300. Alongside her love of medieval history, she is fascinated in wines produced from Tuscan vineyards, which, together with saffron and wool, were the most sought-after goods traded by the wealthy noble families of San Gimignano already in medieval times. Luciana Cilemmi left San Gimignano at the age of 21 and embarked on a pilgrimage in search of knowledge and to discover the new winemaking skills and products that were then developing both in Italy and in France. In the meantime she added to her knowledge of wine by attending specialised courses and becoming a master of wine. On returning to Siena, she discovered a wonderful area near Murlo where she fell in love with the tiny, unspoilt village of Montepescini. She bought the estate of Montepescini where, based on the experience she had acquired over the years, she found a particular lie of the land, special climatic conditions and an altitude suited to the creation of great wines. With enormous enthusiasm, doggedness and considerable effort, a reclamation programme was started to renew the terrain which was then used to plant 30 hectares of specialised vines. Sangiovese is the dominant vine, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Years of experimentation and the introduction of new winemaking techniques eventually led to the creation of Luciana di Memmi’s prestigious wines. Some years ago, Luciana Cilemmi succeeded in realising her dream of a lifetime: to return to her home town, San Gimignano. She was destined to buy the historic palace with the medieval tower, which had been owned by the prestigious Useppi family from 1200 to 1927 and had then passed to the noble and historic Chigi family of Siena. The Useppi were a powerful Sienese family who owned several castles. This beautiful medieval building has an elegant and distinctive façade full of Sienese and Pisan architectural influences. If you find yourself in San Gimignano, make sure you visit the Chigi Tower and Palace. Luciana Cilemmi holds regular events in the rooms of the medieval tower, such as the presentation of wines, both from her vineyards and elsewhere, attended by international journalists, experts from the sector and critics. She also organises exhibitions of works of art and paintings, and press conferences on the subject of "Wine in San Gimignano during medieval times”. Visiting the home of Luciana Cilemmi is like re-living an aspect of the past that will not return except through the imagination of those who have believed and continue to believe in this story.
