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The year 2019 comes with its cool and refreshing alcohol making a clear nod to the Burgundy region. The bouquet offers a beautiful and expressive combination of red fruits such as cherry and strawberry, with earthy notes reminiscent of roots such as beetroot and more peppery elements. The wine is lively on the palate, with a youthful tannic structure and...
This specific vineyard has an age that surpasses fifty years and is planted on limestone terroir. It is vinified in open oak vats with whole bunches and no additives or intervention according to the hands-off approach of Vincent Gaudry. Depending on the attributes of each vintage the wine will remain for about fifteen months in old oak barrels inside the...
The care of the old stumps is proverbial, they are ploughed only with the help of a horse, they are not "trimmed" in the summer but the result in the quality of the fruit is stunning. The cultivation of the vineyards is biodynamic, the fermentation is spontaneous in oak barrels where the wine will remain for 24 months before being bottled with minimal...
Old Roots comes from a single-vineyard Xinomavro vineyard in Goumenissa and due to its single-vineyard character, it cannot bear the appellation of origin on the label since legislation requires at least 20% Negoska in the blend. Biodynamic farming as well as the age of the vineyards helps to harvest Xinomavro earlier and at better maturity levels. The...
A complex combination of varieties such as Listan Negro, Listan Prieto, Baboso, Negramoll, Malvasia Nera and other local varieties are blended into the single vineyard which is over 100 years old. This ancient vineyard is autochthonous and the plants are cultivated organically, without support, at an altitude of up to about 250 metres directly above the...
The care and the philosophy in the winery does not change, since for the classic Mavrodaphne, which does not carry the organic certification, Slavos chooses gentle natural vinification of the grapes. The wine will mature for twelve months in 500lt barrels, exuding a pleasant herbal sensation, with fresher, red fruit than the organic Mavrodaphne and almost...
