While it keeps the classical Domus style and the Maipo character, it’s a lot subtler, fresh and balanced. It’s the most elegant Domus to date, with a level of precision that is not easy to achieve. I love this 2016, a subtler wine that is more introverted, shy and serious but with a level of complexity and depth, refinement and nuance I have not seen in any previous vintages. This is radically different from the 2015 I tasted next to it: 2015 was warm and dry, while 2016 cold and wet, and the wines show it. The élevage was in French oak barrels, 53% of them new, and lasted 16 to 18 months. Part of the wine underwent malolactic in tanks and part in barrel. After a cold soak that lasted around 12 days, the grapes started fermenting spontaneously in stainless steel. The 2016 Domus Aurea, one of the most classical among the Cabernets from Maipo, contains 10% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot that were harvested early-ish, before the big rains. This prolonged the long period of closure to the public of the archaeological site, until the year 2015.“2016 was one of the most unusual vintages in Chile in recent times, as it was much colder than usual and rained a lot. On the 30 of March ,2010 collapsed the domus’ entrance vault. For these reasons the restoration is gone very slowly. The Domus Aurea was the subject of a long restoration, the reopening was scheduled for January 2007, but the great monument continued to suffer from the presence of the traffic of the Capital and to the roots of the trees that infiltrated into the ground, creating further instability. Thanks to the discovery of these paintings, the artistic term "grotesque" was created Raphael even took inspiration from the frescoes of the Domus Aurea for the making of the Vatican Loggia. Today the frescoes are faded, but were studied during the Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael. Soon the word spread and the young Roman artists lowered themselves down inside the cave to admire the beautiful ancient frescoes. The cave was covered with painted figures. Towards the end of the XVth century, a young Roman accidentally fell into a cave. The burial helped the paintings to survive as sand worked as the volcanic ash of Pompeii, protecting them from moisture. In forty years, the Domus Aurea was totally buried under these new constructions. On the plot of the domus Aurea were built the Baths of Titus, the Temple of Venus in Rome and the Coliseum. It seems that the architects Severus and Celer, designers of the Domus, had created an innovative and ingenious mechanism to ensure the ceiling movement and rotation like the stars in to the sky.Īfter the Nerone’s death, the palace was stripped of its precious coverings.
Today visitors can admire only few fragments of these old mosaics. The fine mosaics were mainly employed for covering floors, but then Nerone decided to decorate mosaic ceilings of some rooms anticipating one of the main issues of Christian art. On each floor there were pools and in the hallways fountains.
The halls were finely coated in fine polychrome marble or richly frescoed. The “Domus Aurea” was essentially a villa for the holidays with approximately three hundred rooms and none of them used as sleeping rooms. The statue had been adapted over the years with the heads of the various successors of Nerone, before Adriano decided to demolish it, to build the Flavian Amphitheatre, commonly called Colosseum. The statue was placed at the main entrance of the building, overlooking the Palatine Hill.
Nerone also commissioned a great big bronze statue of about thirty meters reproducing himself, dressed with the old dress of the Roman sun god, Apollo. Its quite layered as it opens up, the acidity is vibrant and the tannins are refined. At the center of the gardens which included forests and entire vines, there was a pond in part artificial, in which then arose the Colosseum. This wine exhibits lots of dark fruit and tannins. The villa extended for about 250 hectares, most of the area was occupied by gardens with pavilions destined to parties. The wines are made by winemaker Jean-Pascal Lacaze, well respected for his deft hand in producing memorable.
Domus aurea winery full#
They are focused on producing unique Chilean wines, full of personality and verve. It took this name because of the extensive gold claddings and the ceiling embellished with semi-precious stones and ivory plates requested by the emperator. Pealoln winery was founded by vineyard owner Ricardo Pea and his wife Isabel. The name comes from the Latin, "house of gold". the palace burned completely and therefore it was necessary to build a new imperial residence, the Domus Aurea. In the early years of his reign, Nerone had built the "Domus Transitional" designed to connect its possessions.
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