2018 Gianfranco Fino ES Riserva

The Michelin guide for restaurants, the Vini d'Italia from publisher Gambero Rosso for the best Italian wines. The latest edition was recently published, which judges on the basis of the quality of the wine and its continuity over the years. Michelin gives stars, the Gambero gives glasses. Tre Bicchieri (3 glasses) is the ultimate review. The guide is 1,000 pages long, reviews 2,350 producers and more than 10,000 wines. However, this guide remains the most important judge of wines in Italy and the wines of Gianfranco Fino have been voted the absolute number 1. The June/July edition of Winelife also devotes 2 pages to the great wines of Gianfranco.

Es, according to Freud, is: "instinct and unbridled passion (the same with which this wine is produced), without rules, without limitations, beyond space, time, logic and morality. It knows no good or bad. Es is subject to a single principle: " PLEASURE" Gianfranco Fino started this domain in 2004 when he bought a 50-year-old Primitivo vineyard. Despite its recent start, the domain is already a point of reference in the region. The wines already have a cult status among wine journalists and aficionados. Extreme quality .100% Primitivo. Micro production of 7000 bottles.

The ES Red or ES Riserva is the top model of this great wine and is only made in the top years such as this 2018. An absurdly low yield ensures an unprecedented wine from the Primitivo grape. The primitivo grapes for the Gianfranco Es already come from a very small vineyard, but what makes it completely unique (and therefore also explains the price) is that on average only 200 grams of grapes are harvested per vine . So only a few bunches are kept on the vine through aggressive pruning, but they then receive all the food that the old vines bring up from deep in the ground. The wine is grown according to biodynamic principles. The ES Riserva contains the best grapes coming from the best plot of its vineyard.

When the time is right, the withered grapes are harvested by hand in plastic crates with careful selection of the bunches and transported in refrigerated trucks. The grapes are destemmed, very gently crushed, maceration in stainless steel tanks for 3-4 weeks, contact of the skins with the must, control of the cap temperature, 2 daily délestages, gentle pressing of the skins with hydraulic vertical crusher. After approximately 12 months of oak aging, the wine is bottled without the aid of fining agents and is then left to mature in the bottle for another 4 years (48 months) before being released on the market (so this vintage only became available in 2023). Only around 800-1,000 bottles of the ES Riserva are made.

FACT: In the Tab: Appendix you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will send it to you automatically when you order this wine. The wine is in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will also receive a nice discount.