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Gabrio Bini

Gabrio Bini Riserva Giotto Carignano 2023

$320.00

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Style: Dry, medium-to-full-bodied red; intensely mineral and saline with dark fruit, fine tannins, and a long, concentrated finish; built for aging
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Carignano; 135-year-old wild, ungrafted bush vines; biodynamic farming; volcanic soils at 985-1,310 ft elevation; Pantelleria, Terre Siciliane IGT
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; gravity-fed; 100% destemmed; spontaneous fermentation; 7 months maceration and maturation in buried terracotta dolias; no fining, no filtration; total SO2 5 mg/L; approximately 300 bottles produced
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 61-64°F; decant 1-2 hours mandatory; will develop over 10 or more years
Pairing: Sicilian braised wild boar
Similar to: Old-vine Corbières, structured Priorat, amphora-aged Nerello Mascalese

Gabrio Bini Riserva Giotto Carignano 2023 is a dry red wine produced by Gabrio Bini at Azienda Agricola Serragghia on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. Made from 100% Carignano grown on 135-year-old wild, ungrafted vines farmed biodynamically on volcanic soils at 985 to 1,310 ft elevation, the grapes are hand-harvested, moved by gravity, fully destemmed, and undergo spontaneous fermentation before seven months of maceration and maturation in buried terracotta dolias. Gabrio Bini Riserva Giotto Carignano 2023 is bottled unfined and unfiltered with a total SO2 of just 5 mg/L. Around 300 bottles are produced per vintage.

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Producer profile

Gabrio Bini

Gabrio Bini is a Florentine-born architect who spent much of his career in Milan before discovering the island of Pantelleria in the early 1990s. He visited the island for the first time around 1993 and returned repeatedly, captivated by its savage Mediterranean landscape, before purchasing a property in Scauri in 1994 alongside his wife Geneviève, an art director based in advertising, and their son Giotto. The property came with one hectare of vines and a caper plant.

For the first decade, it was the capers rather than the wine that occupied Bini most intensely. He experimented rigorously with different salting and preservation techniques, and the capers from Serragghia eventually found their way onto the tables of some of Europe's finest restaurants. The wine, however, was also developing in his thinking. Bini had been a committed natural wine enthusiast since before the term was common, and his discovery of the work of Pierre Overnoy in the Jura shaped his vision for what wine from Pantelleria's ancient vines could be. He spent ten years researching before harvesting his first grapes in 2005.

The estate, Azienda Agricola Serragghia, now covers seven hectares of vineyards at 985 to 1,310 ft elevation, farmed biodynamically without copper or sulfur in the vineyard. Vines are tended entirely by hand and horse, with no mechanical vineyard equipment. The oldest vines on the property, from which the Riserva Giotto is made, are ungrafted Carignano over 135 years old. Annual production across the entire range is between 5,000 and 15,000 bottles total, making Serragghia one of Italy's most limited producers by design. The Riserva Giotto is produced from a single amphora, resulting in approximately 300 bottles per vintage.

The wine is named after Giotto, Gabrio's son, who works alongside him on the estate. All wines are fermented and aged in buried terracotta dolias, some of which are centuries old, sourced from Spain. No additions of any kind are made at any stage.

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Wine region

Sicily, Italy

Pantelleria is a small volcanic island in the Strait of Sicily, roughly 43 miles from the Tunisian coast and 62 miles from the southwestern tip of Sicily. It is an Italian island but sits geographically and climatically closer to North Africa than to mainland Italy, and its landscape reflects that position: stark, rugged, wind-swept, and built on layers of ancient lava and volcanic rock. The island is about 15 miles long and 7 miles wide, with a mountainous interior rising to about 2,743 ft at Montagna Grande, and a coastline of dramatic cliffs, sea caves, and black sand beaches.

Viticulture on Pantelleria has been practiced for thousands of years. The island is internationally known for Passito di Pantelleria, a sweet wine made from the Zibibbo grape (Muscat of Alexandria), which was designated a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014. Zibibbo thrives on the island's volcanic basalt and pumice-rich soils, which are planted with low, head-trained bush vines known locally as alberello pantesco, a training system developed to protect the vines from the constant Sirocco wind that blows from North Africa. These bush vines are kept extremely low to the ground, often just 12-20 inches tall, to stay below the worst of the wind.

The island's volcanic soils are rich in minerals but low in organic matter and fertility, which stresses the vines and concentrates flavors in the small-berried fruit. At higher elevations, including the area around Serragghia where Gabrio Bini farms, cooler temperatures and persistent sea breezes from both the Mediterranean and the channel separating Pantelleria from Tunisia moderate what would otherwise be an extreme Mediterranean climate. The combination of altitude, wind exposure, volcanic soil, and ancient ungrafted vines produces wines of intensity and mineral character that are unlike anything grown on the Sicilian mainland.

Carignano, known as Carignan in French and widely grown in the Languedoc and Sardinia, also has a long presence on Pantelleria, where old and ancient plantings have survived ungrafted on the sandy, volcanic terrain, naturally resistant to phylloxera.

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

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Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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