Afianes Icarus Red 2017
£56.50
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Afianes Icarus Red 2017
£56.50
Description
Icarus is Afianes' flagship red, made from 100% Fokiano — Ikaria's indigenous red variety, first documented by a European traveller in the 15th century. Aged for 12 months in oak barrels, it shows the variety's characteristic bright ruby colour, distinctive aromatics and long finish.
At a glance
Grape
Fokiano
Region
Aegean Islands
Vintage
2017
ABV
14.7%
Body
Full Bodied
Grape
Fokiano
This grape variety is mostly cultivated in the Aegean Islands of Samos, Ikaria and other Dodecanese Islands. Fokiano has a solid nature, it is resistant to dry weather conditions and infections. It is used in red, rose and sweet wine production. It can produce well-balanced wines in wide spectrum of red colour, fruity scents and tastes.
Producer
Afianes Wines was founded on Ikaria in 1997 by Nikos and Maria Afianes, and is now run alongside their children, Konstantinos and Eftychia. For more than two decades the estate has focused on reviving Ikaria's two indigenous varieties, Fokiano and Begleri, once little known beyond the island. Grapes are still foot-trodden in a traditional granite press and fermented in buried clay jars, a method that shapes the wines' earthy, layered character; some cuvées see time in French oak. Everything is fermented with indigenous wild yeast and bottled unfiltered and unfined with minimal sulphites — a natural, biodynamic and organic approach that runs through the whole range.