Hiyu - Tzum Clochan 2020 (750ml)

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Producer	Hiyu
Country	United States
Region	Washington
Varietal	Graciano,  Carignan,  Negroamaro,  Nero d’Avola,  Biancolella,  Vermentino,  Treb
Vintage	2020
Size	750ml

Winemaker’s note: “This is the rarest and least frequently seen of our wines. We released a single barrel in 2018. We bottled another barrel in 2019, but are still holding onto it. It’s inspired by Sardinian expressions of Graciano and Carignan, but includes many Southern Italian cultivars, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea; notably Negroamaro and Nero d’Avola.” 

The name is taken from the beehive-shaped, ancient, dry stone huts on the SW Irish coast.

Varieties: field blend of Graciano, Carignan, Negroamaro, Nero d’Avola, Biancolella, Vermentino, Trebbiano, Verdicchio, Cataratto and Fiano – about 70% red grapes, and the rest white.

Place: Just inside the desert gate, beside the spring in the oasis, as the cobbled hill rises. Hot and windy, the parcel is on the same steep rocky hill in the desert as Fionn, Aedin and Aos Si. It’s the smallest of these parcels, less than half an acre on very sparse soil of black sand.

Making of: hand harvest. In 2020, this was on the skins for 10 days and made in the style of a dark, southern Italian Rosé or Cerasuolo – wines that tend to be darker than many reds but are intended to be served chilled. Like those wines, it was aged longer in barrels, 20 months in old barrels of mixed size, which allows the wine to develop more profound flavors. Unfined, unfiltered, zero SO2 added.

Personality: “Earth, meat and floral essences. The southern Italian cultivars also bring a very unusual fruit profile; wild, dark berries with orange and cardoon, with some smoke, savoriness and meatiness. Color: Muddled Myrtle Berry. Taste: Tart wild berry, peppercorn, orange peel and cardoon infused in an ancient leather flask. Culture: Gathering in the blue zone with Sardinian shepherds while shaving bottarga over pasta with cardoons.”