£74.00
per bottle (1500 ml)
Cabernet-Sauvignon-based blend with Touriga Nacional and Mavrodaphne as partners. Deep colour and a complex bouquet, that will continue to evolve for 10-12 years. It ages for 24 months in oak barrels and is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Best drunk at 18°C with grilled meat or game.
Red
Dry
2016
15 ABV
Mavrodaphne, Cabernet Sauvignon, Touriga Nacional
Peloponnese
Grapes
Cabernet Sauvignon
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.
Touriga Nacional
Producer
Papargyriou
The winery’s founder, Aristidis Papargyriou, planted his first vineyards in 1978, with the aim to produce wines of high quality and distinctive character. He chose matched varieties with high potential for the region, such as Assyrtiko, Sauvignon Blanc, the local Muscat, Cabernet Sauvignon, Agiorgitiko and Mavrodaphne. In the early ‘90s, the first Papargyriou wines were released. Yannis, his son, with studies in Agriculture and winemaking at the famous Wine Institute of Geisenheim in Germany, has been continuing his work since then and expanded the family’s vineyard, originally to be found near the village of Lalioti, Corinthia, 120km to the west of Athens, to a new vineyard site at Sofiana, Corinthia, at 800-900m altitude. This splendid new vineyard of 16 hectares is giving grapes of superior quality and has raised the production to around 50000 bottles yearly.
