Gate - Shun Minowa
The Gate by Shun Minowa is a white wine macerated on the skins obtained from a blend of white grapes. Fermentation in concrete with maceration on the skins for 10 months with 80% of the mass destemmed grapes; the balance is pressed with the feet in whole bunches and macerated in an open tank for 10 days just like the elders of the valley did. Aging in cement for 10 months. no addition of sulfur dioxide, no clarifications or filtrations. Very few quantities for a highly sought-after wine. A rich and complex wine, tannic and frank.
Grapes: Local white grapes.
Alcohol content: 12,5%.
Aging: 10 months in cement
Contains sulfites
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Gate - Shun Minowa
The Gate by Shun Minowa is a white wine macerated on the skins obtained from a blend of white grapes. Fermentation in concrete with maceration on the skins for 10 months with 80% of the mass destemmed grapes; the balance is pressed with the feet in whole bunches and macerated in an open tank for 10 days just like the elders of the valley did. Aging in cement for 10 months. no addition of sulfur dioxide, no clarifications or filtrations. Very few quantities for a highly sought-after wine. A rich and complex wine, tannic and frank.fur, no clarification or filtration. Very few quantities for a highly sought-after wine. A rich and complex wine, tannic and frank.
Service
It is recommended to taste it at a temperature of 8/10 °. Daily wine but it holds up very well for a few years of aging.
Pairings
Excellent with fish-based appetizers, lasagna with zucchini and prawns, to try with de paccheri allo scoglio.
Winery: Shun Minowa
Shun Minowa is a young winemaker who is located in Travo in the Trebbia Valley. Of Japanese origin, he speaks perfect Italian and arrived here in 2016. Graduated in biology at the University of Tokyo, he worked as a distributor in a wine shop, also in Tokyo, and then decides to go to work in Spain, because he is in love with wine. Catalan. From here he moves to Chile where, after meeting Elena Pantaleoni of La Stoppa (in Chile she also owns the Mission estate), she begins to take an interest in natural wines. When he arrived in Italy he went to work for La Stoppa where he became friends with the legendary Giulio Armani of the Denavolo company and Alberto Anguissola di Casè. In 2017 Shun moves to Travo, where he decides to try his hand at the production of his own wine with the rent of an old 40-year-old vineyard. The first vintage was 2019, a wine called Gate, obtained from a blend of white grapes and vinified as it was done in the past in the Trebbia Valley, that is, with maceration on the skins as if it were a red wine. Very few quantities for a highly sought-after wine.
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