Guccione 'T - 12/5' 2012 (750ml)

Price: $50.99

Qty:   Add to Cart

Quantity in Stock: 10

Producer	Guccione
Country	Italy
Region	Sicily
Varietal	Trebbiano
Vintage	2012
Sku	01406
Size	750ml

     

This is a complex, glowing, geologic wine—autumn in a glass—with lambent notes of apple tart, beeswax, porcini mushroom, almond paste and jasmine. Enjoy through 2040 and beyond.

Produced from a 2.8-hectare plot of old-vine Trebbiano—grown in isolated pockets in the Sicilian highlands southwest of Palermo since the 15th century——this extraordinary wine was fermented with native yeasts and was aged in traditional 3000L Mittelberger tini for five years prior to bottling. It was rested in bottle for six additional years prior to release. 

Nestled in the Sicilian highlands 40 kilometers southwest of Palermo, the tiny domain of winemaker Francesco Guccione is both a voyage of discovery and study in splendid isolation. Here, at nearly 500 meters altitude, in the shadow of Mount Kumeta, the 'lone wolf' of the Belice Valley tends his terre brune soils naturally, by hand—‘tutto fatto a mano’—in keeping with traditions that have distinguished this remote but historic outpost, Contrada Cerasa, for more than two centuries.