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Zyme Veneto

Zyme

Zyme Harlequin 2016

Red green still

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Zyme Veneto
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Denomination Veneto IGT
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Area Veneto (Italy)
Grape varieties Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Corvina, Corvinone, Croatina, Garganega, Marzemino, Merlot, Oseleta, Rondinella, Sangiovese, Sauvignon, Syrah, Teroldego, Trebbiano Toscano
Aging A two-fold maturation process follows, for a total of 30 months, with new French oak 225-litre barrels (200%), with no rackings. The unfiltered wine is bottled and receives an additional minimum 2-years ageing in bottle. Harlequin is produced only in the finest growing.
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Description

The label, inspired by the figure of Harlequin, depicts the mask, the tear running down his face, and the tomato stains on his costume.

Awards

  • 2016

    2

    This guide is highly respected and offers the most comprehensive review of Italian wines. It has a long tradition and is based on blind tastings carried out by over 100 experts.

  • 2016

    94

    /100

    James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.

  • 2016

    4

    Italian Sommelier Association (AIS) guide

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Perfume

Perfume

Mix of fruit, blossoms, and minerality, with well-defined feeling of volume and detail.

Color

Color

Brilliant, dense ruby red, tending to garnet with ageing. Dense, with a high content of glycerine.

Taste

Taste

This wine gives a sensation of enveloping richness and complexity. Fruit, spices and higher alcohols alternate with flavours of fruit jam and forest floor. Tobacco, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves touch and its minerality enhance its flavour. It has a persistent and persuasive sweetness. It differs from Kairos in a more detailed flavour.

Serve at:

18 - 20 °C.

Longevity:

15 - 25 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Producer
Zyme
From this winery
  • Start up year: 2003
  • Oenologist: Celestino Gaspari
  • Bottles produced: 100.000
  • Hectares: 30
The name Zýme stands for “yeast" in Greek. Yeast is, of course, a vital element in the world of enology, but it also bears a symbolic meaning, since it combines the idea of naturalness, a fundamental value in Celestino Gaspari’s professional and existential career. Yeast also means the process of fermenting and maturing, which stands for a continuous quest to transformation. In harmony with that philosophy, the winery logo represents a grapevine leaf in which is centered a pentagon, a symbol of the five basic elements that combine wine production: people-vine-earth-sun-water.

Re-establishing an ideal habitat where people and nature are in perfect symbiosis is, in fact, the idea of a new humanism of the earth, of which Celestino Gaspari and Zýme are promoters.

This new idea has the purpose of establishing a new relationship between the environment and people as the natural guardian of their local corner of the earth. People are those who protect the environment, but also the ones who can renew it, and reinterpret it.

Ecosustainability to vineyard management practices, transparency of the final product through the understanding of its production processes, and respect for the rhythms of nature are the principles of Zýme’s approach to winemaking.

This approach stands for a simple style of living in harmony with the earth, in a historical moment in which people, bewildered by the opulence of fake well-being, have put at risk their own survival.

Tradition and innovation are the two complementary features of Zýme’s wine production. The respect for, and attention to the historic wines of the Valpolicella area accompany innovation and experimentation with new wines that will enhance and renew the local background. Culture, history, tradition, innovation – a glass of wine is so many factors, but in Celestino Gaspari’s heart, wine is above all "yeast" for the mind and "yeast" that grows a project, Zýme. Read more
Production area: Veneto
Veneto
Zyme

Elaborate dishes of all meats with robust and spicy sauces. Excellent with aged and full-flavoured cheeses and game. This wine can be sipped at the end of a meal or alone.

Meat
Cheese
Matured cheese
Pork

Name Zyme Harlequin 2016
Type Red green still
Denomination Veneto IGT
Vintage 2016
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 15.0% by volume
Grape varieties Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Corvina, Corvinone, Croatina, Garganega, Marzemino, Merlot, Oseleta, Rondinella, Sangiovese, Sauvignon, Syrah, Teroldego, Trebbiano Toscano
Country Italy
Region Veneto
Vendor Zyme
Origin San Pietro in Cariano (Verona)
Soil composition Alluvial, volcanic or glacial according to the location of the vineyard.
Wine making The whole clusters are crushed without destemming, and the grapes ferment in concrete vats with ambient yeasts for about 30 days. Pump-overs and délestages follow the vinification. The company also performs visual, smell and hearing inspections. The drawing-off is performed, and maceration lasts 10 days.
Aging A two-fold maturation process follows, for a total of 30 months, with new French oak 225-litre barrels (200%), with no rackings. The unfiltered wine is bottled and receives an additional minimum 2-years ageing in bottle. Harlequin is produced only in the finest growing.
Total acidity 5.8 gr/L
PH 3.5
Residual sugar 4.7 gr/L
Dry extract 35.0 gr/L
Allergens Contains sulphites