Ronceray is a wonderful step-up in complexity and intensity from the simple, but also beautiful" Anjou Blanc from Chateau de Plaisance. Harvesting on the Chaume hill is manual and after a gentle cold pressing of the grapes, fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts. 30% of the wine is matured in Burgundy barrels for 12 months and the barreled part...
A natural Roditis wine sourced from organic permaculture vineyards at an altitude of 90 meters, with limestone and clay soils. The grapes are harvested by hand, followed by destemming and maceration with the stems for approximately 2 days in a stainless steel tank. The must is transferred to a stainless steel tank, where fermentation is completed with...
Pata trava is a Xynomavro made using direct pressing to prevent it from taking on color, and it represents a unique expression of the variety’s natural vinification from the Ligas winery. Based on its winemaking technique, it is a rosé, but it is actually closer in character to a skin-contact orange wine, made without any intervention whatsoever. A golden...
Asyrtiko Barrique comes from 18-year-old vineyards in Pella, planted in limestone, clay, and granite soils, with a north–south orientation and cultivated organically using permaculture principles. The harvest is done by hand, and fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts. This is followed by maceration with whole grapes for 7 days in a stainless...
100% Kydonitsa grapes undergo orange maceration with whole berries, which are left to macerate for 7 days in stainless steel tanks. It is then transferred to 400L Austrian oak barrels, where fermentation is completed, and it remains there in contact with the lees for 6 months before bottling. Exotic fruits and floral notes on the nose, a nutty character...
Roditis Maceration is an orange wine made from 100% Roditis grapes, sourced from 18-year-old vineyards at an altitude of 150 meters in Pella, with limestone, clay, and sandy soils and a north–south orientation, cultivated organically using permaculture principles. Harvesting is done by hand, and vinification follows a non-interventionist approach, with...
Moschomavro MVL is an authentic, low-intervention expression of this rare variety from Pella, where the Ligas family works using organic practices and permaculture principles. The grapes come from 13-year-old vines in limestone and clay soils, harvested by hand and fermented spontaneously with native yeasts. Vinification follows a zero-intervention...
Sauvage Bleu is a red wine made from 100% Limniona grapes, sourced from 12-year-old vines growing at an altitude of 300 meters in Pella, with a north–south orientation and cultivated organically using permaculture principles. The harvest is done by hand, and fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts, involving a very gentle maceration of whole...
Spira Solera is produced exclusively from Xinomavro grapes grown in organic vineyards in Pella at an altitude of 100 meters. The harvest is done by hand, and the must is separated from the skins in a blanc de noir vinification process in stainless steel tanks. The juice is transferred to 400L oak barrels to complete fermentation and is then added to the...
The wine is fermented with spontaneous yeasts in a combination of cement and oak tanks and is matured for eight months in them. It has that lovely peppery character of the Rhone wines but with very restrained alcohol and more fresh than overripe fruit. The tannins are soft and flowing on the palate, possessing both breadth and density. There's nothing to...
“The Arche” is both an end and a starting point; a moment that closes one cycle and opens a new one. The 2021 vintage, marked by the devastating wildfires that ravaged vast swathes of pine forest, gave its name to this reflection. The need to redefine our relationship with everything that gives life and identity to the land. The 1979 Kallos Arche 2021 is...
