Barafakas Sixty Nine Steps White 2022
£30.00
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Barafakas Sixty Nine Steps White 2022
£30.00
Description
Barafakas Sixty Nine Steps is a dry Malagousia from Nemea in the Peloponnese. Stainless-steel winemaking highlights white flowers, citrus and white-fleshed fruit, with a crisp palate and a fruity finish. Pair it with fish, chicken or pasta in a light sauce.
At a glance
Grape
Malagousia
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2022
Sweetness
Dry
Denomination
PGI Peloponnese
Pairs well with
Fish, Chicken, Pasta
Grape
Malagousia
Malagousia is an aromatic Greek white grape brought back to prominence after becoming exceptionally rare in the 1970s. It typically combines peach, flowers and fresh herbs with a rounded palate. Now grown across Greece, it is used for expressive dry whites and some sweet wines.
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.