Unleash the Complexity of Pink Freud: Canlibero Winery’s Exciting and Juicy Rosé
Canlibero’s Pink Freud is an exciting and juicy rosé that is fresh, handsome, and free to express itself thanks to a careful, precise, but most importantly “light” vinification.
With a hard and pure natural approach, this cellar has recently provided us with one pearl after another. The wines have personality, charisma, and depth, but they also have incredible drinkability, and don’t mistake this “ease of use” for aromatic or gustatory complexity.
Quite the opposite, in fact. The structure is not pumped up, but the enjoyment factor is exponentially increased due to longer macerations and blends. Instead of the classic gargantuan Aglianico from Mike Tyson’s brawl, we have a penetrating, but very pleasant rosé.
Aromas of citrus and forest, cascading flowers, and a lot of salt in the mouth. Because the acidity is contained and well dosed, there is no traditional saber effect of a rosé to be drunk in an iced carafe.
This wine, on the other hand, is much more articulated: the brushstrokes are dense but not heavy. The details are sculpted with a firm but agile hand and the bottle is completed in an instant.
Especially if you serve it with fried chicken or Parmigiana, at a fish dinner, a summer barbecue, or thai food like pad thai.
How it is made
The vineyards are managed organically, using only copper and sulfur as fertilizers and pesticides. 2 hectares in the hills of Sannio, Torrecuso, in the Taburno national park. The soils contain large blocks of limestone and clays. Fermenting spontaneously in steel and bottling without the addition of sulfur dioxide. Obviously, the wine has not been clarified or filtered.
Organoleptic characteristics
The color is dark coral. Ethereal nose with pungent scents of woods, blueberries, iodine, and flowers. It has a decisive, gritty palate, but not harsh tannins, and a statuesque body carved into the rock. On the palate, lemon, grapefruit, and more herbaceous flavors alternate, creating a splendid symphony that is sunny, direct, and disruptive as an aromatic charge. Despite the 13-degree angle, the articulation oscillates between salt and citrus. Never-ending pleasure and juice. Never take anything for granted. Smoothness comes from inebriation.
Price
16.90 euros: a reasonable price that reflects the high quality of a small or large rosé.
Pairings
Try it with Cantonese rice, pizza margherita, veal with tuna sauce, chicken curry, carbonara, cacio e pepe, paella, or as an aperitif to cool down spicy Thai and Indian dishes.