Barafakas Assyrtiko White 2024
£30.00
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Barafakas Assyrtiko White 2024
£30.00
Description
Barafakas Assyrtiko White 2024 is a Greek white wine from the winery’s Selected Vineyards range in the Peloponnese. It focuses on Assyrtiko, one of Greece’s best-known indigenous white grapes, offering another expression of the variety from the family winery based in Nemea.
At a glance
Grape
Assyrtiko
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2024
Denomination
PGI Peloponnese
Grape
Assyrtiko
Assyrtiko is a Greek white grape originating on Santorini and now grown throughout the country. It retains lively acidity in warm, dry conditions and is prized for its texture, structure and mineral character. Beyond dry whites, it also makes rich sweet wines from sun-dried grapes.
Producer
Young winemaker Christos Barafakas with a degree in Agriculture returned to his family’s 14-hectare large vineyard in Nemea and established his winery in 2002. He has been one of the few new producers, who expressed the Agiorgitiko variety in fresh styles, without the use of ageing wooden barrels. His vineyard plots have a varying altitude between 280 and 600m above sea level, with plants ranging in age between 5 to 45 years and overall low yields, 6-9 t/ha. Although generally straightforward and practical in his approach, he has created some unique wines, such as “Thousand Years”, a blend of Agiorgitiko and Cabernet Sauvignon, suitable for ageing in the cellar and the boutique Phylacto, sun-dried Assyrtiko in very limited quantities, a “mini-Vinsanto” (with a twist, as aged in acacia barrels) to be found outside Santorini.