Aivalis Le Sang de la Pierre Red 2014
£56.00
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Aivalis Le Sang de la Pierre Red 2014
£56.00
Description
Premium location, single vineyard. Agiorgitiko. Old vines, rocky, calcareous, non-irrigated soil and large day-night temperature difference make up the signature of this wine. 12 months new French oak barrel-aged.
At a glance
Grape
Agiorgitiko
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2014
ABV
15.0%
Body
Full Bodied
Grape
Agiorgitiko
Agiorgitiko is the quiet power grape of the Greek vineyard and of yet unexplored potential. It is not only the PDO grape of Nemea, the largest region with such status but has the fame that spreads throughout Greece and so does its cultivation. It is also the most marketed grape domestically, to the extent that one can find agents selling wines of Nemea anywhere in Greece, even in the heart of other dedicated wine-producing regions. It performs well in hot climates and gives a variety of styles. Thick-skinned of variable size, depending on the clone and with around 8 clones available commercially today. It is potentially high yielding, late budding and late ripening.
Producer
Aivalis Winery is a small family estate in Nemea, Peloponnese, built around a deliberately hands-off approach to farming: no irrigation and no fertilization, so vines are forced to root deep into the region's rocky, calcareous soil in search of water and nutrients, concentrating the fruit. Yields are kept extremely low, and each vineyard plot is harvested and vinified separately rather than blended together — an approach closer to Burgundian practice than typical Nemea winemaking. The wines are bottled without stabilization or filtration. Christos Aivalis founded the estate, and his son Sotiris, who trained in Burgundy, now plays a growing role in the winemaking, working almost exclusively with the Agiorgitiko grape that defines the Nemea appellation.