Sant'Or Krasis Red 2021
£22.50
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Sant'Or Krasis Red 2021
£22.50
Description
Vivid, ruby colour, cherry and strawberry jam bouquet with gentle earthy and animal hints. Velvety and spicy mouthfeel.
At a glance
Grape
Mavrodaphne
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2021
ABV
13.0%
Sweetness
Dry
Body
Full Bodied
Biodynamic
Natural
Organic
Vegan
Grape
Mavrodaphne
Mavrodaphne, meaning black laurel in Greek, is indigenous to Achaea region in Northern Peloponnese. It produces almost opaque, dark coloured red wines and represents flavours of caramel, chocolate, coffee, raisins and plums.
Producer
Sant'Or is a small biodynamic estate in Santameri, a historic village about 30km from Patras in Achaia, named after the ruins of a 13th-century Frankish castle in the hills above it. Panagiotis Dimitropoulos farms the family's vineyards — inherited through generations of growers — at 600m in the foothills of Mount Scolis, without irrigation, and was behind Greece's first certified biodynamic winery. Alongside Roditis and Agiorgitiko, Sant'Or is built around two local specialities: dry, monovarietal Mavrodaphne, a grape usually reserved for sweet wine, and Santameriana, a nearly extinct white grape from the village itself that Dimitropoulos has spent years reviving, starting from just ten surviving old vines.