Karadimos Alba Vissa White 2021
£25.00
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Karadimos Alba Vissa White 2021
£25.00
Description
The Alba Vissa wine has been produced from fully ripe Assyrtiko grapes from our 15 y.o, family-owned single vineyard named “palaiokastra”(means the old castle) – “Vissa” at the time of Homer. The ungrafted low yielding vines of Assyrtiko are growing in low fertility limestone – clay soils with almost 30% active Ca+2. No oak, no malo treatments during a 12 months fine lees stirring under a vortex regime. The ALBAVISSA wine is physically stabilised
At a glance
Grape
Assyrtiko
Region
Central Greece
Vintage
2021
ABV
13.5%
Organic
Grape
Assyrtiko
Assyrtiko is by far Greece’s most renowned white grape variety, associated most famously with the volcanic island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Following its notable success, it is now grown successfully all over Greece and beyond in Clare Valley, Australia, South Africa and California, being the first Greek grape to become international. It has developed a reputation as being a versatile grape variety, producing wines in a multitude of styles, from fresh, mineral white wines to oaked, worth keeping ones and from bold complex reds to rıch matured dessert wines, such as Vinsanto. Compact clusters of large, moderately thick-skinned berries, late budding and late ripening. Vigorous and productive, resistant to drought, disease and wind and capable of maintaining high acidity up to the final stages of the ripening period. In Santorini it is trained in the characteristic baskets, sitting close to the ground and named “kouloures” by the locals.
Producer
The Karadimos Estate is a family winery near Megaplatanos, Atalanti, in central Greece, founded by brothers Dimitris and Giannis Karadimos. Dimitris spent years teaching physics before retraining as an oenologist in 1998, joining forces with Giannis, who already had experience in viticulture. Their 65 acres of vineyard climb the mountainous slopes of Knimida, largely within the archaeological site of Vissa, and have been organically certified since the estate's earliest plantings — Assyrtiko in 1998, followed by Malagousia, Sauvignon Blanc and finally Xinomavro in 2000.