The estate is first named in a parchment held in the State Archives in Siena. Our thousand years begin with that document: counted in full, because documented in full.
Source: State Archives · Property deed
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San Gimignano · Toscana · A.D. 994
From 994, we have made wine — at Cusona.
A thousand years of roots. The most ambitious chapter begins now.
act I — the numbers
A thousand years of vineyards. Without missing a harvest.
Eight documented milestones. It begins with a parchment from 994. We are not done yet.
In the Gabelle Ordinances of the Comune of San Gimignano, Vernaccia is recorded for the first time. Already regulated, already taxed. Not a discovery: a continuity.
Source: Comune di San Gimignano · 1276
It is the only wine named in the Purgatorio. The detail that separates a winery from a territory.
«… and purges by fasting the eels of Bolsena and the Vernaccia.»
Purgatorio · Canto XXIV
Lorenzo the Magnificent serves Vernaccia at the Rucellai-Medici wedding banquet and sends it as a gift to Pope Innocent VIII. Not an isolated case: the trajectory of a wine that, even then, reached the highest tables.
Source: Florentine archive · 15th century
The cellarer to Pope Paul III writes of it. Vernaccia di San Gimignano enters the history of wine criticism with a line that, five centuries on, still says enough.
«A perfect drink for Lords.»
Sante Lancerio · 1541
Vernaccia is bottled in Bordeaux-style bottles for the first time. The format becomes one of the defining marks of the denomination: the wine chooses how to present itself to the modern world.
Source: estate archive · 1933
Vernaccia di San Gimignano is the first Denominazione di Origine Controllata ever granted in Italy, before Brunello, before Barolo, before all the others. When Italy first defined by law what a great Italian wine was, it did so here.
Ministerial Decree · May 6, 1966
Vernaccia becomes the first Italian white wine awarded Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita status, the highest institutional level. Thirty years on, it remains DOCG.
Ministerial Decree · July 9, 1993
act II —Our place
What we make today.
This is where we belong. San Gimignano, Tuscany. In Cusona, on a ridge that separates Florence from Siena.
We make great white wines. Vernaccia di San Gimignano is where we start every harvest. Everything else follows.
The next thousand years begin today.
Guicciardini Strozzi · A.D. 994
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Six wines.
Six readings of the land.
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act III — Cusona
Our world, for a thousand years.
The gates of Cusona are open. Four frames: waiting, maturing, enduring, remaining.
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Five ways of being.
The next thousand years.
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Experience I
Classic
The first encounter with the estate. The view over the vineyards, the medieval cellars, four wines by Guicciardini Strozzi.
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Experience II
Tuscan Pairing
Four wines and a selection of local specialties, with the time to bring them into conversation.
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Experience III
Beyond the Glass
A path built for those who want to understand what San Gimignano means in the glass.
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Experience IV
The Estate Experience
Guicciardini Strozzi at its fullest measure. Five wines, one complete journey of flavors.
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Experience V
Truffle Hunting
The truffle hunt in the private truffle ground of Cusona. Followed by the return to the cellars and the tasting.
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Taste slowly.
Two or three shipments a year. The Guicciardini Strozzi selection, accompanied by a letter. Access to previews of new vintages, , to older vintages kept in the cellars, and to events that never pass through public channels.
level I
Heritage
6 bottles · 2 shipments / year
Preview of new vintages
A letter from the estate
€340 / release
level II
Collector
12 bottles · 2 shipments / year
Preview of new vintages
Access to limited editions and exclusive events
Private access to EVO pre-releases
An estate experience with 15% discount
€440 / release
level III
Millenario
12 bottles · 3 shipments / year
Preview of new vintages
Access to limited editions and exclusive events
Private access to EVO pre-releases
An estate experience with 15% discount
Allocations of the library vintages
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One thousand thirty-two years.
And as you read this sentence, a few more seconds.
Cusona, today