Tuscany Red and White

Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti dei Colli Senesi: two wines that enchant American wine lovers sensitive to native varieties and organic methods.



From the towers of San Gimignano to the Manhattan skyline is a long journey, but twenty-five producers from two prestigious Tuscan denominations, Vernaccia di San Gimignano and Chianti dei Colli Senesi, along with their presidents, crossed the ocean to introduce aromas and flavors from their corner of the region to New York's wine lovers.



For the entire afternoon of June 4th, hundreds of wine shop owners, distributors, sommeliers and wine journalists poured into the halls of the International Culinary Institute in Soho to taste wines but above all, to meet the producers. “It's important to reinforce the image of Vernaccia di San Gimignano in a crucial market such as this,” Letizia Cesani, Consorzio president, told Tre Bicchieri. “Americans are paying more and more attention to our native white, a wine that embodies centuries of history.”



A video made by Gambero Rosso Channel was shown during the crowded seminar held by Marco Sabellico, senior wine editor of Gambero Rosso and co-author of the Vini d'Italia guide, and the two Consorzio presidents. “Our territory is beautiful,” commented Gianni Borella, vice president of Consorzio Chianti Colli Senesi, “and we work to keep its landscape pristine. A sophisticated audience like New York is very conscious of these issues.”



“This market is attentive to what's new, sensitive to subjects like nature and organic farming, and tired of wines from international varieties,” explained Leopoldo Bisio, director of Montcalm Import. “These wines of ours can grow on this marketplace.” “This is a zone of small wineries. Thay have enthusiastic producers and grapegrowers who work in harmony with nature,” observed Robert Mackin of Artisanal Wines Import. “Gambero Rosso is doing a good job of helping them reach out and contact a market like the American one that appreciates these elements.”