Decanter 98 – top Vernaccia ever by a mile:
After achieving his boyhood dream of studying winemkaing, Simone Santini planted vines in 1986 and made his first wine (a red) in 1993. His Vernaccia's have an unmistakeable texture, combining depth from sensible yields, backbone from fossil-rich limestone soils, and beautiful creamy textures from ageing on fine lees, kept sensibly calm in an underground cellar at constant temperature. This terrific no-added-sulphites Vernaccia is an uplifting white delivering brilliantly clear, salivating yellow and white fruit flavours.
Organically farmed and with no added sulphur, this shows just what this extremely popular yet too often commercial and banal wine can be in the hands of a perfectionist, artisanal producer.
