Papargyriou Le Vigneron Grec Orange 2017 • Kudos Wines

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Papargyriou Le Vigneron Grec Orange 2017

£23.00

per bottle (750 ml)

DESCRIPTION

Completely different than anything you have ever tried and you are accustomed to, Le Vigneron Grec 2017 Domaine Papargyriou is an innovative approach to Assyrtiko. The ultimate aromatic complexity meets kicking tannins and razor-sharp acidity in a wine that is still deafeningly young and not targeted to many. The limited bottles anyway had sold out even before it was released. Staying in the bottle will definitely add to it if you can wait.

AT A GLANCE

Orange

2017

12 ABV

Assyrtiko

Peloponnese

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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

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.

DELIVERY

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