Pinò - 2013
Gulfi
4.50 / 5.0
- Type
- red still, dry
- Region
- IGP Terre Siciliane, Italy
- Producer
- Gulfi
- Vintage
- 2013
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir
- Alcohol
- 13
- Sugar
- 1
- Price
- 2175 UAH
- Cellar
- not available
This vine is a challenge: at 850 meters above sea level and under the influence of the great volcano. The ideal vines are selected, including two types of Burgundy Pinot Noir adapted to the thousand-year-old Etnean sapling cultivation method. The volcanic sand element of the soil adds a refreshing energy to the well renowned elegance of Pinot, a result of the minerality of the soil. Pinò is: a foreigne, perfectly adapted to the customs and traditions of the place he put his roots down.
The grapes, harvested in the second week of September, are vinified as a red wine with a short maceration at a controlled temperature. After alcoholic fermentation, the wine is racked into small 500-litre barrels where it naturally completes malolactic fermentation and matures on fine lees for at least a year. Aged in the bottle for a few months.
Ratings
4.50 / 5.0·750 ml
Made by Gulfi at the 850 meters above the sea level, under the influence of the great volcano. I could not pass by. Elegant and mature. Sour cherry, pomegranate, autumn leaves, underbrush, raisin, strawberry jam, candied fruits. Reminds me of Otago wines. Silky, perfectly balanced, evolving with long finish. Flavours of confiture with earthy hints. I feared that it will disappoint me, and while it didn't change my life, I am really happy to pass this milestone in a form of a beautiful Sicilian Pinò.
a few hours later
Welcome to the continuation of my experience with this wine. First of all I'd like to say, that this wine is so damn tasty, that the bottle is running our so quickly. I love how playful and evolving acidity is. I love the tannins, which are elegant, but still powerful enough to lead this wine through yet another 7 years. Would I buy it again? noises of budget dying in agony Yes!
Gulfi
The fact that my relations with Sicilian wines are special might be something obvious. But not many people know that it all started with Gulfi stand at the very first Kyiv Wine festival. When we met, I was already tired (e.g. drunk). I almost passed by, disgusted by my own weakness, when a Gulfi representative (apologies, I don't remember her name) stopped me and offered a glass of their wine. I looked at the representative welcoming face. I looked at the naked ass on the label. And I realised there are no reasons to reject this present from Dionysus. And even though I don't remember which wines I tasted exactly, the Gulfi imprint is what I took out of that overly drunk day.
It is worth mentioning that the naked ass on the label has a meaning. A meaning close enough to what one might think. Meet an ancient mosaic from Villa Romana del Casale located in Piazza Armerina in the province of Enna. This mosaic depicts Eros (Cupid) and Psyche (Beauty). According to the story, out of envy of Venus, they are forced to love each other in secret. But passion rarely goes unnoticed, and in their case, it found a physical manifestation (no puns) in the form of a daughter (no puns, seriously) they called Vulptas (literally meaning 'pleasure'), a goddess of sensual pleasures. And how does it connect to Gulfi? Sicily is Psyche, Gulfi is Eros, and their child is wine, a sensual pleasure.