Montenidoli 'Il Templare' Toscana IGT 2019

2019 Il Templare Bianco Toscano 92VM
Montenidoli
San Gimignano, Tuscany

92 pts Vinous (Galloni)
The 2019 Il Templare brings together all the elements that make the best whites here compelling. Bright and focused, with tons of depth, the Templare has a ton to offer. Dried orchard fruit, crushed flowers, spice, mint and chamomile lend notable complexity throughout. This rich, potent Vernaccia-based blend is compelling.
- By Antonio Galloni on June 2023

Not made every vintage and the most RARE of the Montenidoli wines, it is made from the 3 traditional white grapes in Tuscany: vernaccia (in the above wines), trebbiano and malvasia.  Templare, of course, if you can't tell from the name, is made in memory of the Templar Knights, who lived at Montenidoli. This wine is also vinified carefully and entirely in used French oak barrels, as the Knights Templar did.  It is a rich wine that refines in the bottle for a very long time.  I myself have maybe a bottle or 2 in my cellar, all I could ever get allocated.  YOU can have all you want and from TWO vintages!

Soil composition Clayey, calcareous and marine sediments
Composition 80% Vernaccia, 15% Trebbiano gentile, 5% Malvasia bianca
Farming Certified organic
Vinification Free run juice fermented in old barriques
Refining 12 months in French barriques and 12 months in glass-lined cement vats
Bouquet Fruity and alluring
On the Palate Rich, spicy, with a long finish