£20.44
per bottle (750 ml)
DESCRIPTION
The skins of Assyrtiko are macerated in stainless steel tanks with the must for 5-7 days at low temperature. After removal of the pomace, the must produce by the first run juice ferments at 18º- 21º C for 20-30 days. During the fermentation high-quality pine resin from the mountains of Evia is added, following an ancient recipe. Spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts, no oenological substances added, followed by spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The produced wine is racked from the very dense sediments and sur-lie on fine lees for three months. No protein stabilization, only tartaric stabilization.
AT A GLANCE
White
2016
13 ABV
Assyrtiko
Northern Greece
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Grape
Assyrtiko
Assyrtiko is by far Greece’s most renowned white grape variety, associated most famously with the volcanic island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Following its notable success, it is now grown successfully all over Greece and beyond in Clare Valley, Australia, South Africa and California, being the first Greek grape to become international. It has developed a reputation as being a versatile grape variety, producing wines in a multitude of styles, from fresh, mineral white wines to oaked, worth keeping ones and from bold complex reds to rıch matured dessert wines, such as Vinsanto.
Compact clusters of large, moderately thick-skinned berries, late budding and late ripening. Vigorous and productive, resistant to drought, disease and wind and capable of maintaining high acidity up to the final stages of the ripening period. In Santorini it is trained in the characteristic baskets, sitting close to the ground and named “kouloures” by the locals.
Producer
Kamara
Dedicated to the ecological philosophy, Kioutsoukis Family use exclusively organic methods and principles of biodynamic farming to produce wines from indigenous and international grape varieties. The low hillside with its microclimate, including a refreshing northern wind that is present all year round and the different types of soil, provide adequate a diversity that allows for different blends and styles of wine to be produced. Using modern wine-making equipment, only to monitor and support the natural course of the wine-making process, they create wines that express the terroir without lowering the quality standards.
DELIVERY
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