Vinedo de los Vientos | Pablo Fallabrino Alcyone Tannat (Half Litre) – NV

Detailed Description

A chocolate bar, this wine is made with a mixture of techniques from Marsala, Chinartto Barolo and even vermouth, that is, it mixes overripe fruits, cooking musts and adding aromatic herbs. The result, as we said, is a chocolate, seasoned with herbs and with a long finish.

Producer Information

The family vineyard is situated in Uruguay, just 50km from the ocean and its cooling breezes, from which it also takes its name ’Winery of the Winds’. Pablo Fallabrino has 30 hectares of land with 17 hectares of vines including Chardonnay, Moscato Bianco, Arneis, Gewürztraminer, Tannat, Cabernet Sauvignon, Ruby Cabernet, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Dolcetto; the latter he only planted this last year. Unfortunately, he said, they weren’t very good quality vines and he lost the whole plantation, but he plans to try again. The vines are planted high in pergola to protect against frost. Although they hadn’t had serious problems with this in the past, lower pockets now do and so they are now looking for higher plantation areas. He tells us a sad story that in the 1920s, on their 50th wedding anniversary, his grandparents, recently arrived from Alessandria in Piemonte, lost everything to a massive frost. His father subsequently also planted vineyards in 1947 and in the fifties and sixties was the largest winery in Uruguay, producing ten million bottles per year. Pablo came here in 1995 following the deaths of his father and grandfather and started to work the land. In 1997, he built his own winery and began producing wine; previously he had only sold grapes. He shows us the winery building, telling us that he had bought the tanks and other equipment in 1997, only to have a huge storm destroy the roof, which took years to build up again.