Guicciardini Strozzi
San Gimignano · Siena (SI)
Established
994
Guicciardini and Strozzi families
Yearly production
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estate (Vernaccia di San Gimignano)
Location
San Gimignano, province of Siena — at the Cusona estate in the Vernaccia di San Gimignano hills
Siena (SI)
Vineyard area
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Vernaccia for the San Gimignano DOCG plus Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet across a 530-hectare estate
Appellations
Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCGToscana IGT
History
The Guicciardini Strozzi estate at Cusona, near San Gimignano, is documented from 994 in a parchment in the Siena state archives, and has made wine there for over a thousand years.
It has long been tied to two great Florentine families — the Guicciardini (Francesco Guicciardini, historian and statesman, for whom the young Machiavelli worked) and the Strozzi (bankers and rivals of the Medici). The family recorded its first Vernaccia di San Gimignano in 1200, a wine praised by Dante and Boccaccio.
Spanning 530 hectares, the estate specialises in Vernaccia alongside red and other white grapes.
Wines
Illustrative selectionVernaccia di San Gimignano
The estate's classic Vernaccia.
Vernaccia di San Gimignano Riserva
A Vernaccia Riserva.
Cusona 1933
A single-vineyard Vernaccia.
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