Gabrio Bini

Gabrio Bini Heritage Zibibbo Orange 2023

Name: Gabrio Bini Heritage Zibibbo Orange 2023
Brand: Gabrio Bini
SKU: BINIHERITAGE
Price: 200.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$200.00

Style: Dry, medium-bodied orange wine; intensely aromatic and mineral with rich fruit, a saline backbone, and a long, complex finish; builds significantly in the glass
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Zibibbo (Muscat of Alexandria); single cru of 120-year-old ungrafted bush vines; biodynamic farming; volcanic soils at 985-1,310 ft elevation; Pantelleria, Sicilia IGT
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; destemmed; gentle press; 20-day spontaneous fermentation in buried terracotta dolias on skins; 7 months maceration and aging in amphora; no fining, no filtration; zero added sulfites; approx. 600 bottles
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 54-57°F; decant 30-60 minutes; develops considerably in the glass over 1-2 hours
Pairing: Bottarga di muggine
Similar to: Skin-contact Muscat from Roussillon, deep Georgian amber wine, structured amphora-aged Vermentino

Gabrio Bini Heritage Zibibbo Orange 2023 is a dry skin-contact orange wine made by Gabrio Bini at Azienda Agricola Serragghia on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. The wine is 100% Zibibbo (Muscat of Alexandria) sourced from a single cru of 120-year-old ungrafted bush vines farmed biodynamically on volcanic soils at 985 to 1,310 ft elevation. Grapes are hand-harvested, destemmed, and gently pressed before 20 days of spontaneous fermentation and 7 months of maceration and aging on skins in buried terracotta dolias. Gabrio Bini Heritage Zibibbo Orange 2023 is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfites at 12% ABV, in approximately 600 bottles.

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Gabrio Bini Heritage Zibibbo Orange 2023

$200.00

Producer profile

Gabrio Bini

Gabrio Bini spent the first half of his professional life as an architect, based in Florence and later in Milan. It was through his wife Geneviève, an art director in advertising, that he first discovered Pantelleria in the early 1990s: she had visited the island through a photographer connection made on a job in Miami and invited Gabrio to see it. The couple returned several times before purchasing a property in the Scauri district in 1994, inheriting one hectare of vines, a grove of ancient olive trees between 200 and 300 years old, and a patch of caper plants.

For the first decade, Bini focused primarily on the capers, experimenting with salt-curing methods and developing a very limited production that found its way to the tables of some of Europe's most recognized restaurants. The wine, meanwhile, was an intellectual project as much as a farming one. Bini had long been passionate about natural wine before the term was widely used, and his discovery of Pierre Overnoy's approach to winemaking in the Jura gave him a philosophical and technical framework that he spent years adapting to Pantelleria's volcanic conditions. His first harvest came in 2005.

The estate, Azienda Agricola Serragghia, now covers seven hectares of vineyards planted primarily with Zibibbo, alongside Pignatello, Catarratto, and Carignano. Vineyards are farmed biodynamically without copper or sulfur, tended entirely by hand and horse. All fermentations take place in terracotta dolias, some of which are centuries old and sourced from Spain, buried partially underground to maintain cool, stable temperatures during the hot Pantellerian summer. Annual production across the full range is between 5,000 and 15,000 bottles.

The Heritage cuvée is made from a single old-vine parcel of 120-year-old ungrafted Zibibbo bush vines at the highest elevation of the estate. It is Serragghia's most concentrated white, with around 600 bottles per vintage. The project is now a true family operation: Geneviève manages brand, design, and communication, while son Giotto, for whom the Riserva Giotto Carignano is named, works alongside Gabrio in the vineyard and cellar.

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Wine region

Sicily, Italy

Pantelleria is a volcanic island in the Strait of Sicily, lying roughly 43 miles off the coast of Tunisia and 62 miles southwest of the Sicilian mainland. It is Italian territory but sits firmly in a North African climatic and geographic zone: dry, hot, wind-battered, and built almost entirely on layers of ancient volcanic basalt, pumice, and lava rock. The island stretches about 15 miles long by 7 miles wide, rising to 2,743 ft at Montagna Grande in the interior, with a coastline of sea cliffs, black sand beaches, and natural thermal pools.

Zibibbo, known internationally as Muscat of Alexandria, is Pantelleria's defining grape. Its cultivation here dates back thousands of years, with Phoenician traders believed to have introduced the variety to the island in antiquity. It is grown almost exclusively in the alberello pantesco, a low bush training system unique to Pantelleria and recognized as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2014. The vines are trained to grow just 12 to 20 inches from the ground to minimize wind damage from the Sirocco, the hot, dry wind that blows from North Africa across the channel throughout much of the growing season.

Soils on Pantelleria are volcanic in origin: dark basalt, pumice, and mineral-rich lava derivatives that are naturally low in fertility but high in trace minerals. These soils drain quickly, stress the vines, and concentrate flavor in the small-berried Zibibbo clusters. At the higher elevations of the island, where Gabrio Bini's Serragghia estate is located, persistent breezes from both the Mediterranean and the Tunisian strait moderate the otherwise extreme Mediterranean heat, giving the wines more freshness and acidity than might be expected given the latitude.

Pantelleria is internationally known for Passito di Pantelleria, a sweet wine made from sun-dried Zibibbo, and Moscato di Pantelleria, a lightly sparkling sweet expression. Dry skin-contact wines from the grape, such as the Heritage, represent a more recent and far less common expression of the same variety and terroir.

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