The Designation of San Gimignano Consortium was founded under the name of Consortium of Vernaccia di San Gimignano in 1972 by the will of a small group of producers of Vernaccia, aware of the utility and the need for a aggregation for a proper management of the name. An adventure of a private nature, but whose positive effects have an influence on more levels on the whole territory of the Municipality of San Gimignano.
Since the foundation, the Consortium had clearly understood the purpose for which it was founded and has pursued these goals with tenacity over the years:
Enhancement of wines and defence of their image.
Brand promotion.
Research and development of the quality of the products.
Just a careful and focused work of the Consortium that has operated, over the years, in synergy and symbiosis with master winemakers and vintners to increase the quality of the productions, has resulted in 1966 the Controlled Designation of Origin: Vernaccia di San Gimignano was the first Italian wine to be awarded the designation, which in 1993 became a DOCG.
Even today the main commitment of the consortium is the pursuit of the enhancement of the image and the identity of San Gimignano wines, the implementation of sales and marketing initiatives in support of diffusion in Italy and abroad of Vernaccia di San Gimignano and San Gimignano Rosso DOC, the control, monitoring and improving of the quality of production both in grapes and in wine.
