Period, Period 2020

Name: Period, Period 2020
Brand: Gloriville
SKU: gloriville-period.period-2020-12.5%-750ml
Price: 80.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$80.00

Hebei, China · Red Wine · Medium Bodied

Period, Period is Chengzi at his most patient: a single-plot Marselan from the Great Wall foothills of Huailai, Hebei, given forty months to settle in old oak before release. Marselan, a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache, has quietly become one of China's most exciting grapes, and here it grows on land he farms biodynamically, with the same refusal to intervene that has defined his wines since 2013. Organic, hand-picked, wild-yeast fermented, unfined, unfiltered and without a trace of added sulphur. The long ageing shows: dark plum and blackberry softened into something supple and savoury, with fine tannins and a calm, mineral finish. A full stop, twice over, and worth the wait.

Pairing Suggestions

Its dark fruit meets soy and star anise: braised beef shin or lu wei.
Or a steak cooked plainly, with a great deal of black pepper.

About Gloriville

Chengzi Li grew up on his family's ten hectares in Huailai, Hebei, vineyards planted in 1999 to supply the big state-owned wineries, until a chance encounter with natural wine in Shanghai in 2013 changed everything. He took back the estate, stopped selling grapes, and began farming organically; by 2023 he had committed fully to biodynamic principles. In the cellar, nothing is added and nothing is taken away focusing on wild ferments, no fining, no filtration, no sulphur. The wines are alive in the truest sense: wild, honest, and rooted in a part of China that most wine drinkers have never thought to look.

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