Frank Cornelissen – Munjebel Perpetuum (RARE Solera!)

Frank Cornelissen ‘Munjebel Perpetuum’ is a rare Solera system approach to his volcanic wine. The first bottlings of MunJebel rosso classico were blends of 2 vintages which Frank Cornelissen always liked as it gives a good idea of a larger area instead of a vintage wine.

When he stopped blending vintages as of the 2012 vintage to search for more precision, he says he kind of missed the evolved “old-school” style of the first wines he first produced and so decided in 2016 to produce a similar style wine again, applying the “perpetual” method of great solera wines.

The first edition will be a blend of 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.

We bottled 25% of this first edition in 2021 and adding the selected wine of the 2020 vintage to fill up the tank again.

Perpetuum is born!

This is a special blend of contrada Piano dei Daini 2015, MunJebel classico 2016, contrada Crasà 2017 and MunJebel Classico 2019

Elevation: 600m.-800m. asl
Varietal: Nerello Mascalese 100%
Average age of vines: 60+ years
Vinification: Destemming and light crushing of the grapes
Fermentation: starting with a “pied-de-cuve” using only indigenous yeasts and skin contact for about 50 days
Aging: One neutral epoxy tank of 7.000 liters for several years depending on the edition and an additional 6 months in bottle