Carmenère Del Rèbene

Description

Flink is a word of Germanic/Cimbra origin, meaning “light, agile” like the gustatory notes of this wine. A young and carefree interpretation of Carmenere, which nonetheless confirms the determined and persistent character of the grape.

GRAPES:

Carmenère 100%

HARVEST:

manual in mid-October

VINEYARDS:

Municipality of Zovencedo, 300 m above sea level, facing south

ALCOHOL:

11,5%

Organoleptic Notes

It starts with a raspberry flavor and closes with hints of spices and herbs.

Pairings

Cured Meats, fresh cheeses, especially Asiago DOC

The Origins of Flink

How the name Flink was born

FLINK, in German means agile, not heavy, light.
It is the name we chose for this Carmenère 2021, characterized by both visual and olfactory lightness, but with a strong taste.

We were thinking of making a wine with light NOTES of Carmenere … and.. thinking about the notes, while we were looking at the labels of our previous Carmenere, we realized that, in addition to representing the rows of vines, the red lines are 5, like those of the Pentagram. This is how the label project was born.

Around the year 1000, the monk Guido d’Arezzo composed a Gregorian chant whose first seven verses began with a different note and always higher by one degree. This was the text of the first seven verses:

UT queant laxis
REsonare fibris
MIra gestorum
FAmuli tuorum
SOLve polluti
LAbii reatum
Sancte Iohannes

The Flink notes

The notes of a wine are like those of a pentagram

In ancient times the notes on the pentagram were symbolized with small squares instead of in circles/ellipses as nowadays, furthermore the DO was called UT.

So we thought, taking the “pentagram” of the Carmenere wine, to place the squares of the notes on it.

The arrangement is not random!

As on an ancient pentagram we have therefore arranged the notes in such a way as to give a melody with a “hidden” and curious meaning.

The Mi Do Sol says the Flink label! As if to say that La (on the hill) Mi Do (I take and mature) Sol (with the sun’s rays).

They are therefore “light notes” from which FLINK, in the Germanic/Cimbrian language.

We start from the Carmenere vine but with a lower gradation, more agile, lighter!

You can “feel” in the label, the graphics and lines of the Carmenère, used as a musical base (pentagram) to add different, light notes.

Vinification

The hand-harvested grapes are immediately destemmed and transferred into the
barrels by gravity. Subsequently, thanks to the inoculation of the “pied de cuve”
prepared with our grapes, fermentation occurs spontaneously and continues for
approximately 3 days in stainless steel tanks, accompanied by daily pump-overs and punch-downs.
After racking and pressing, the wine was transferred and aged for 7 months in
stainless steel tanks and finally bottled in our winery.