Sant'Agnese. Vermentino 'Kalendamaia'

Toscana IGT
Grape: Vermentino

A vintage that gave a purity of fresh fruit, grapefruit, lime touched with lychee and almond on a taut mineral core. There is a vibrancy and intensity that feels right, bright in all the right places. Delicious now, but this is a wine that also matures wonderfully, gaining weight losing some seashore freshness. 14.5%

Sant'Agnese producer page

This is quite a different take on the standard Vermentino widely produced in the coastal region of Tuscany. Vermentino is widely planted from the South of France through Corsica, Sardegna, Piemonte, Liguria and Toscana; Paolo uses the Maremma clone and aims to amplify the grape’s wide spectrum of flavours. His vines are guyot trained and planted on the flatter part of the farm with deeper clays at a density of 5500 vines per hectare. The grapes are hand-picked in the second week of September. The pressed must macerates for three days at 5°C prior to fermentation in concrete tanks, between 17-19°C. The wine is aged in tank over the winter, and clarified in the spring with bentonite, then filtered and bottled.