Tzum Clochán
red · still · Columbia Valley
Specs
- Producer
- Hiyu Wine Farm
- Region
- Columbia Valley
- Vineyard
- Scorched Earth Vineyard
- Color
- red
- Style
- still
- Grapes
- Graciano, Negroamaro, Nero d'Avola, Carignan
About
Community & editorial
The rarest of Hiyu's wines, a single barrel some years, from the smallest, sparsest black-sand parcel (under half an acre) on the same steep desert hill as Fionn and Aedín. A ~70% red field blend inspired by Sardinian Graciano and Carignan but reaching across Southern Italy: Negroamaro, Nero d'Avola, plus white Biancolella, Vermentino, Trebbiano, Verdicchio, Catarratto and Fiano. Named for the beehive-shaped dry-stone huts of the southwest Irish coast.
Vintages
10 days on skins, made in the style of a dark Southern Italian rosato / Cerasuolo, then 20 months in old barrels of mixed size, zero SO2. Nate: “earth, meat and floral essences; wild dark berries with orange and cardoon, …
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