Il Vino di Jorn

Jorn's Wine

Jorn is one of the most influential and important artists of the twentieth century. Jorn loved traditional Ligurian food and Piedmontese and Ligurian red wines. In the early 2000s, during the restoration of the Jorn House Museum, several empty bottles of wine were found that Berto used to bottle the wine of the “Cantina Jorn”, a game that Jorn had invented, printing a real label in four colors: yellow, blue, white and green.
Jorn's red wine comes from the 2016 harvest from the vineyards of Tenuta Maffone di Acquetico, in the hamlet of Pieve di Teco and not far from the Arroscia Valley, in the province of Imperia. In the autumn of 2017 the wine was brought to Albissola, in the cellar of the Casa Museo Jorn, where it began a slow and controlled aging in a ceramic barrel made by Clayver, a company from Vado Ligure (Savona). For 18 months, the wine was thus left to age in the cellar of Casa Jorn.

Precisely in Valle d’Arroscia, in Cosio di Arroscia (Imperia), in July 1957 Asger Jorn was among the organizers of a very important event: the foundation of the Situationist International, one of the most radical artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century. on that occasion, Jorn and the group of European artists made extensive use of a local red wine, the so-called “Cosiate”, probably obtained from Ormeasco grapes.

The Ormeasco grape has a noble and documented history. It was the Marquises of Clavesana who wanted to plant the Dolcetto vine in the Arroscia Valley in 1299. Over the centuries, thanks to the climate, the salt that comes with the sea wind, the land, the passion of the winemakers, those rows have become a a different wine from Dolcetto, Ormeasco di Pornassio DOC.
Jorn’s wine is an exclusive and limited project: only 300 numbered bottles.

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