- Grower: Vaimaki Family
- Vintage: 2018
- Grapes: Xinomavro 100%
- Viticulture: Organic (non-certified)
- Vinification: From organically farmed Xinomavro grapes, fermented by their native yeast with some temperature control in stainless steel, a few days of maceration, and raised for another 5 months in stainless and 12 more in neutral barriques, before bottled unfiltered, unfined, unsulfured (zero additives).
- Notes: Brick red with intense pomegranate, cherries and leather notes on the nose and hints of hay, with a surprisingly clean light to medium bodied palate with ripe cherries, bright acidity and playful tannins.
Viticulture
- Organic (non-certified)
- Climate: Dominated by the lake Vegoritis, with cold Winter, mild Summer.
- Soil: Sandy clay over limestone, with excellent drainage
- Vine age: 32 years old
- Altitude: 650m
- Slope: 8% (southeast facing)
- Planting density: 6,000 shoots / ha
- Yield: 1.5kg / plant
- Irrigation: Drip in case of drought
- Spraying: Organic treatment of mildew in the Spring
- Harvesting: Manually in 25kg crates
Vinification
- Maceration: 10 days in stainless steel
- Fermentation: With native yeast (wild fermentation) with temperature control at 25 Celsius, in stainless steel, for 1 month
- Press: None
- Malolactic: Full (completed naturally)
- Maturation: 5 months on its lees in stainless steel, 12 months in neutral oak barriques
- Clarification: None (natural)
- Filtration: None
- Production: 5,000 lt
- Acidity: 6.30 gr/l
- RS: 1.50 gr/l
- Total sulfites: 3ppm
- Certification: No Sulfites Added