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Light golden yellow with clearly green reflections. Ripe peaches, dried apricots, orange peel, ginger, and elder...
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Ripe pineapple, papaya, and slatey minerality on the nose. Intense but well-balanced tropical fruit flavors on the...
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Catarratto (biotypes Lucido, Comune, and Catarratteddo) from the contradas of Bausa, Amafi, and Abbadessa, guyot and...
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Hints of beeswax, dusty yellow flowers and cardamom waft up to create a decidedly savory bouquet as the 2020. Insolia...
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White flower aromas such as jasmine combine with faintly tropical fruit and a dairy hint to the nose. On the palate,...
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PoP is made of Vital from Serra do Montejunto, a mountain range 6 miles from the Atlantic. This vineayrd sits on...
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100% Vital. From grapes from Vinha da Pena (vp) from 35-year-old vines planted in Serra de Montejunto, in the region...
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Supple and consistent, with a texture chiseled with an alert liveliness, it can be tasted at all stages of its life....
750ml - Case of 6
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The Aligoté is a rustic variety. It produces a lively and perfumed white wine, with peach, citrus, and acacia flower...
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Added to our estate in 2014, Les Bouillottes completes our range of Aligoté (“Les Grands Champs” in...
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This is aromatic with attractive tropical character offering notes of lychees, mangoes, white flowers and honey....
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Notes of sliced apples, lemon zest and citrus blossom on the nose with crushed stone minerality in the background....
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Here's another stellar bottle from one of Italy's greatest wine subzones: the high-elevation Valle Isarco. Made in...
Aligote Kerner Mavrodaphne Mencia 12 Ship Free Items
In the Archaea region, high in the Northern Peloponnese mountains, the predominant grape varietal grown is the prized Mavrodaphne. Meaning 'Black Laurel', the Mavrodaphne grapes have extremely dark skins, and ripen slowly under the Greek sunshine, helped by the mineral rich soils the vines thrive in. This grape varietal is mostly used to produce the opaque, inky fortified wine of the same name, which is popular all over Greece and elsewhere in the world. This fortified wine allows the grapes to really show off their complex and fascinating flavors, which range from a rich marzipan to flavors of bitter chocolate, sweet coffee, dried figs and prunes, as well as plenty of jammy fruit notes.
Mavrodaphne is produced in a traditional method which involves leaving the grape juice exposed to the sun in large vats, before having its fermentation halted by the addition of various distillates taken from previous successful vintages. This mixture contains plenty of residual sugar, which gives the end result its characteristic sticky sweetness, and also helps with the next fermentation process, which typically takes place in large underground cellars. The final product is a heady drink, absolutely bursting with unusual, rich and sweet flavors and carried in a dark and slightly viscous Port-like liquid.
Mavrodaphne grapes are also used for the production of still red wines, but are generally blended with varietals such as Agiorgitiko or imported grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Mavrodaphne grapes are excellent for mellowing more acidic varieties, and producing deliciously rounded wines, which have taken the international market by storm in recent decades.
Additional Information on Greek Wines
Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
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