Barafakas Gewurztraminer White 2024
£30.00
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Barafakas Gewurztraminer White 2024
£30.00
Description
Barafakas Gewurztraminer is a dry white wine from Nemea in the Peloponnese. Its aromatic style brings together floral and lychee notes with a rounded palate and a fresh finish. A useful choice alongside white meats, vegetable dishes and lightly spiced food.
At a glance
Grape
Gewürztraminer
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2024
Sweetness
Dry
Grape
Gewürztraminer
Gewürztraminer is an aromatic, pink-skinned grape best known for its expression in Alsace. Its white wines are recognised for rose, lychee, exotic fruit and spice aromas, with a generous texture and comparatively gentle acidity. Its pronounced perfume comes from the grape itself.
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.