Nerojbleo - 2018
Gulfi
3.90 / 5.0
- Type
- red still, dry
- Region
- IGP Terre Siciliane, Italy
- Producer
- Gulfi
- Vintage
- 2018
- Grapes
- Nero d'Avola
- Alcohol
- 13.5
- Sugar
- 1
- Price
- 814 UAH
- Cellar
- not available
Ratings
3.90 / 5.0·750 ml·@Wix Kyiv Office
The 2018 Nerojbleo greets with a charming fruit basket of cherries, red plums, and red apple marmalade. There are some subtle notes of black olives lurking around. It's medium-bodied with medium, round, and well-integrated tannin, striking a good balance without trying too hard. The red fruity melody continues on the palate, making it hard to resist another sip. It's not here to bang on about complexity; it simply brings a delightful, juicy tune to the table, easy to groove along with from the first sip to the last.
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.