Description
From 100 year old vines and aged in French barriques for 12 months, this wine features a golden color and a huge bouquet of toast, peach, bay leaf, honey, golden apple, spice, resin and purple flowers. The same flows over onto the taste buds where Assyrtiko’s telltale crystalline/saline acidity carries the long finale.
Classic white vinification. Skin contact method for 6 – 8 hours in low temperature. After careful pressing and the beginning of the fermentation in stainless inox tanks, the must is filled in oak barrels for the completion of the fermentation. Batonnage every two days for one month approximately.
Maturation: 2 years total (12 months in 225Lt medium toast and 12 months in the bottle.
Barrels: French oak 225 Lt. of 2nd – 3rd fill
