Aivalis Monopati Red 2014
£38.00
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Aivalis Monopati Red 2014
£38.00
Description
Single Nemean vineyard is the source of this beautifully crafted Bordeaux style wine with a great body, explosive palate and very successful integration of the oaky elements and time into a powerful core of Agiorgitiko wine. Aged in new French oak for 16 months. 100% Agiorgitiko PDO – 2000 bottles
At a glance
Grape
Agiorgitiko
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2014
ABV
14.5%
Sweetness
Dry
Body
Full Bodied
Denomination
PDO
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.