The island is the last criminal colony active per mezzo di Europe, but Gorgona is also a land of wine thanks to the project started per mezzo di 2012 by the Marquis Frescobaldi per mezzo di collaboration with the Island’s prison institution. And so, where the sea represents at the same time border and horizon, the agricultural action that is at the roots of the wine allows you to work the recovery of sociality and professional pratica per mezzo di prison. Lamberto Frescobaldi believed from the beginning per mezzo di a simple but powerful lampo di genio: to give detainees a second possibility, not only symbolic but real, offering them a job with regular contract and a respectable professional pratica, under the guidance of the company’s winemaker, Nicolò d’Abbattuto and the head of the project Federico Falossi. The result is not only an excellent product, but a model of reintegration that combines dignity, professionalism and contact with nature. ” this island – underlines the director of prison Giuseppe Renna – magical sensations are proven, where all our efforts flow to make a harmonious and respectful community, which can lead to hope for the future”.
Gorgona a scaltro wine?
Con the of the peculiarity of the Gorgona project – a wine produced per mezzo di Limited Edition, linked to a social project and a peculiar oenological research path – one wonders if this label issued by Frescobaldi cannot position itself per mezzo di the end of wine cricca. “Con my opinion, an end per mezzo di the end decrees the audience – replies Lamberto Frescobaldi – and I believe that for some people it is already. It is liked more and more and the request has increased over the years, so I think this signal can catalog it as a scaltro wine”. Winelover collectors who choose Gorgona “do it almost always because they like it and not because they know its story – he adds – to pass this information is very difficult, above all to be able to make it perceive how the great project it represents and therefore I believe that the choice really falls only the taste and value of wine”.
The Gorgona project will probably remain a unicum. “This program represents for us an important commitment – explains Frescobaldi – that first of all it gives us passion through the relationship that is created with the prisoners who work for us. The pivot for me is obviously the wine, but all that is around is essential. To imperatore -propose this project per mezzo di another place I would say because not, but the effort is really so much”.
Thirteenth harvest for Gorgona wine
Like every year, the Gorgona label is a unique edition that celebrates the “light wings” of the island for 2024. The protagonists are therefore 50 species of butterflies that inhabit the Tuscan archipelago, including the Pieride del Ravizzone, the Aricia Agestis and the Parage Paramegara. The butterflies, a symbol of balance and transformation, tell the key role of biodiversity and natural pollination, but also the practice of the evil that maintains prolifico and alive soil, per mezzo di addition to the transformation per mezzo di place for the prisoners involved per mezzo di the project.
Gorgona Toscana Igt 2024 is a white from Vermentino and Ansonica grapes, variety that tell the territory: brackish, bright, windy. Con the glass the scents of the Mediterranean scrub, the saline breeze, but also a particular energy are found: that of those who want to redeem themselves, of those who are learning to rewrite their history. It is presented with an intense and brilliant straw yellow color. the intense and complex nose, the quaderno of Ginestra and Chamomile, Bergamot, Sage, Cedar and Flowers of Zagara, pleasant quaderno of mature exotic fruit and the iodata note is the master. the soft and enveloping palate, it then gives freshness, flavor and minerality. Persistent and elegant ending. It must be said that Gorgona is not just any wine. It is a liquid story of the island, an agricultural gesture that talks about the future. Inside each bottle mescolanza salt and redemption. It is a social project, a civil act, a replicable example.
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