Tarra di Sognu - Vin de France - Rouge - 2021

Wine:

Made from rare grape varieties that have almost disappeared (sciaccarellu, carcaghjolu neru, minustellu), the 2021 Tarra di Sognu red wine displays a superb richness of fragrance and a class that is all Italian! Mature without excess, the deep nose delivers scents of maquis, dry herbs, laurel, and wild blackberry. The palate is very precise, full-bodied, racy, perfumed with fruit and vanilla, and subtly woody. This balance of Mediterranean flavors forms a very grand wine. With an enormous potential for aging, it will be able to accompany a lamb of seven hours or a rib of beef.

Vinification:

Hand harvested. Gentle and natural winemaking. Matured for 18 months in 34 hectoliter tuns and demi-muids.

Certified Organic and Biodynamic wine.

Color:

Dark, intense red-black and bright.

Nose:

Beautifully mature, deep and concentrated marked by scents of wild blackberry mixed with scents of dry herbs, scrub, laurel, all accompanied by a delicate woodiness.

Palate:

Precise, racy and full-bodied, this wine reveals a beautiful balance of Mediterranean flavors. A wine with great aging potential!

Temperature:

Serve between 16 and 18°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Seven o'clock lamb, game birds, leg of lamb with rosemary and thyme, baked beef ribs.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2036

Yves Canarelli is one of the most gifted winegrowers in Corsica, earning 3 stars in the famous French RVF Green Guide and being praised as one of the figures of French viticulture. Since his first vintage in 1997, this indefectible perfectionist has never stopped improving his wines, always modifying and testing new techniques in his search for perfection. Nowadays, he cultivates more than 30 hectares in the Figari and Bonifacio areas, using biodynamic methods, bringing some 40 varieties of endemic grape varieties back to the forefront of Corsican viticulture. 

In 2010, he joined forces with sommelier Patrick Fioramonti, to carry out a new project called Tarra di Sognu. Coming from a small plot of 5 hectares located on the large limestone enclosure of Bonifacio, this wine, produced since 2016, is a novelty in the Corsican wine world. A masterpiece that could only be qualified as a Grand Cru (First Growth), with its mineral tension on the palate that is so unique for a wine from the island. Biodynamic viticulture, use of indigenous yeasts, whole bunches, local grape varieties, aging in tuns, and demi-muids…everything here converges towards excellence.