Marvla Tindo - 'Pesecká Leánka' - Pesecká Leánka - Nitra, SK - 2022

Notes from the Winery/Importer

Pesecká Leánka DRY WHITE WINE VINTAGE: 2022 REGION: Nitra, Levice, Slovakia VINEYARD: Levice - Strážny vrch - Albína VARIETY: Pesecká Leánka FARMING: Ecological SOIL: Volcanic ALTITUDE: 280–350 meters FERMENTATION: Direct press, spontaneous fermentation AGING: Stainless steel and used barrels ALCOHOL: 11% TOTAL PRODUCTION: 2,500 bottles Pesecká Leánka is an old Carpathian variety acclimated to the blazing summers and icy winters of the Tekovský region. The wine is delicate and perfumed, yet contemplative, structured and flinty.

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  Notes on the Producer

  Marvla TINDO Winery is the union of two wine passionate friends, Vlado Kuny and Martin Danielic. The unconventional name of the winery originated from a combination of their first names, mar – TIN and vla – DO. Today, Martin and Vlado call their project a small family-type winery whose main goal is to explore the potential of vineyards planted on the Sitno volcanic subsoil. Only 8.000 to 10.000 bottles produced per year.
  They are one of three minimal-intervention aka “natural” wine producers around the village of Levice, branding themselves as “Wines From Under The Volcano.” These vineyards are planted on the dormant volcano known as Sitno, which towers over the area.
  Local volcanic soils consisting of soft volcanic ash (tuff) and hard volcanic lava (andesite) create unique conditions for grape growing with optimal drainage and water retention due to porous stones, which support vines in hot summer droughts.
  To reach these stones, the vines have to form a massive root system in this mineral rich volcanic soil. Hence, the unmistakable mineral character of the wines.
  Levice lies really on the northernmost border of the central European vine growing region. The slopes of mountains are the natural borders of the Pannonian Basin spreading from Slovenia through Hungary all the way to Slovakia.
  This is simply a magical place where two climatic worlds intertwine. This is where warm, south Europe end (Pannonicum) and the cold, north part of Europe starts its leadership (Carpaticum occidentale).
  Nearby, in the collapsed caldera of the originally 4000 m high Sitno Volcano lies the historic Town of Banská Štiavnica, listed on UNESCO worldwide cultural and natural heritage since December 1993.

• Notes by vinsdolive.com