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750ml
Bottle: $23.94
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• 100% Listán Negro. • Sourced from ungrafted centenary vines at 250-400m of altitude in the village of Santa...
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750ml
Bottle: $21.20
12 bottles: $20.78
• 100% Mavrodaphne. • Low yielding vines from loamy clay soils. • Fermented and aged in stainless steel.
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $20.00
Deep purple color with crimson highlights. Elegant floral nose with peony and violet flowers along with the typical...
750ml
Bottle: $26.95
12 bottles: $26.41
100% Listán Negro aged 5 months in French oak from the Allier forest. The more structured and concentrated sibling...
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750ml
Bottle: $27.50
12 bottles: $26.95
Listán Negro is also known as Listán Prieto or Palomino Negro, and is very close related to País, grown in Chile,...
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750ml
Bottle: $16.92 $18.34
The village red from La Orotava 2020 7 Fuentes was produced with Listán Negro and 5% Castellana Negra from up to 25...
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750ml
Bottle: $25.95
12 bottles: $25.43
The 2021 La Solana comes from a vineyard of Listán Negro pruned in the cordón trenzado way at 350 to 450 meters in...
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750ml
Bottle: $66.00
Like the white, the red 2022 Edición 1 Tinto is a single barrel selected for their UK importer Noble Rot, but it's...
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Listan Negro Mavrodaphne Wine

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.

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