Vernaccia di San Gimignano is a white Italian wine, made from the Vernaccia grape, produced in and around the Italian hill town of San Gimignano, in Tuscany. It was the first Italian wine to be awarded denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status in 1966; on July 9, 1993, it was upgraded to denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG).
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Vernaccia di San Gimignano is an appellation in Tuscany, Italy. Its rules allow Vernaccia. We track 21 of its wines in stock at 12 shops, from 7 wine houses, from € 8.00; mostly white.
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Tuscany
- Grapes allowed
- Vernaccia
- In our wines
- Vernaccia
- Styles
- White 21
- Prices
- from € 8.00 · median € 23.81 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +3.4 °C · 2,391 GDD · 54 % rain |
| 2025 | 2 | € 8.00 | € 11.50 | – | hot +1.6 °C · 2,258 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 2024 | 9 | € 9.90 | € 19.94 | – | hot +1.9 °C · 2,325 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 2023 | 2 | € 13.50 | € 19.75 | – | hotdry harvest +1.8 °C · 2,283 GDD · 74 % rain |
| 2022 | 3 | € 11.50 | € 41.00 | – | hotdry +2.3 °C · 2,404 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 2021 | 1 | € 16.30 | € 16.30 | – | averagedrydry harvest +0.4 °C · 1,992 GDD · 48 % rain |
| 2020 | 1 | € 46.00 | € 23.00 | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,977 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.8 °C · 2,058 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | hotdry harvest +1.0 °C · 2,126 GDD · 83 % rain |
| 2017 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.8 °C · 2,084 GDD · 63 % rain |
| 2016 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,868 GDD · 119 % rain |
| 2015 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.4 °C · 2,003 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,788 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,878 GDD · 93 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.6 °C · 2,045 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.3 °C · 1,961 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | coldwet −1.0 °C · 1,692 GDD · 133 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,009 GDD · 84 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,907 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,934 GDD · 74 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 1,932 GDD · 82 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,845 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,835 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.3 °C · 2,163 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,822 GDD · 128 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,883 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,977 GDD · 96 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,979 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,889 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,803 GDD · 76 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.4 °C · 1,598 GDD · 126 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 1,676 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest +0.1 °C · 1,924 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.2 °C · 1,868 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | coolwet −0.5 °C · 1,809 GDD · 149 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | coldwet −1.2 °C · 1,652 GDD · 132 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 1,833 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.2 °C · 1,648 GDD · 128 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest −0.4 °C · 1,831 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,869 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,750 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest −0.2 °C · 1,861 GDD · 60 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −2.2 °C · 1,437 GDD · 139 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,758 GDD · 89 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 1,857 GDD · 116 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Vernaccia di San Gimignano's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
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