Cooperation between Oprişor Winery and Ciprian Paleologu gave birth to a second line of wines. It was a double experiment, and we’ve been happy to learn that many wine lovers accepted it without hesitation. On the one side, NENUMITA has not a pre-established fixed “history”. Ciprian Paleologu created three characters – The Woman, The Child and The Beast –, whom he set at large in four different hypostases, so that everybody meeting them be able to put down their story. If, by giving names to the speechless beings, Adam assumed ascendancy over them, Paleologu’s three characters stay generic. They are the ingredients which, forever universal, rewrite world’s fairy-tales without pointing to one of them.

On the other hand, the four-label-box owner’s freedom does not reside in his/her right (obligation) to write its story, but in the possibility to give it a name. NENUMITA /THE UNNAMED/ is more than a game, it’s the request of the sacred word, of the password delimiting the world of perceptions (cognizable through senses) from the world of phantasms, of myths, of the nostalgia after the times when people used to live in and out of the fairy-tale realm. NENUMITA creates the reflex of giving names, and “to give names” means to make distinction, to dissociate, to compare, to bring to life. To imagine a name for this wine could be translated by to appropriate and associate it. That is, to discover a dialogue between your self and the depths and expressions of this magic potion, abandoning yourself to the energies the myth can release.

Resumed in the certificate of authenticity accompanying each NENUMITA /UNNAMED/ box, the essence of this experiment stands as follows: “Everything you will think about the marvels discovered inside the box must be taken for granted, must be shared with your closest friends and, moreover, must be treasured. […] Read carefully the stories on the labels, try to understand them, to take part in them, try to be, in turn, The Beast, The Child or The Woman…”