Theodorakakos Assyrtiko White 2023
£15.80
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Theodorakakos Assyrtiko White 2023
£15.80
Description
Blond-yellow colour with soft golden yellow shades, intense and compound flavours conveying fine aromas of mature apple, melon and mango, combined with aromas of roasted almond, vanilla, honey and biscuit. Full body, fatty in an elegant way, with a special minerality. Aromatic aftertaste that lasts. It accompanies perfectly fried cheese, roasted potatoes with fresh spices, fatty fish roasted on charcoal, grape vine leaves with rice stuffing, cheese pies and vegetable pies. Aged in French and American oak barrels through bottonage for two to three months.
At a glance
Grape
Assyrtiko
Region
Peloponnese
Vintage
2023
ABV
12.0%
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
This organic family vineyard and winery lies at the 17th kilometre of the national road Sparta – Gytheio, direction Monemvasia. It was from this region, according to tradition, where the Byzantine emperor and the Court of Constantinople were supplied with wine. The first vines of the vineyard were planted at the beginning of the 20th century, by grandfather Nicolas. Today, with over 30 hectares of privately-owned vineyard, George Theodorakakos continues to cultivate the local wine varieties, Kydonitsa, the Peloponnesian Mavroudi, Monemvasia, Thrapsa and the widely known national grapes Assyrtiko, Rodites and Agiorgitiko. The winery was built in 1988 at the heart of the vineyard, outfitted with the latest equipment to support the production of high-quality wines, under the supervision of George’s enologist son, Nicolaos. Low yields, up to 8t/ha, contribute towards excellent grape quality and the vineyards converted to organic farming in 1996. All the wines produced in the winery use grapes exclusively from the privately-owned vineyard.