Gaia (Gaia's Estate)
Agiorgitiko Red Dry Wine
Greece
Supple, fun fruit, pitch-perfect acid. I think this wine is at the beginning of a good run that's gonna go for the next several years. Great treat with tonight's lamb chops.
Supple, fun fruit, pitch-perfect acid. I think this wine is at the beginning of a good run that's gonna go for the next several years. Great treat with tonight's lamb chops.
Dec 6th, 2014
6 years since the last time I opened a bottle from this case. Nicely perfumed, cedar, cigar box on the nose. Very bright acidity. Fruit is very much in background, maybe dried cherries, spices and forest. Very mellow integrated tannin, not prominent initially, then a bit on the side of the mouth and the structure comes in during the finish.
6 years since the last time I opened a bottle from this case. Nicely perfumed, cedar, cigar box on the nose. Very bright acidity. Fruit is very much in background, maybe dried cherries, spices and forest. Very mellow integrated tannin, not prominent initially, then a bit on the side of the mouth and the structure comes in during the finish.
Dec 14th, 2023
We love traversing this beautiful planet through the senses, tasting wine and conjuring images of the land and vine from which it came.
Here we’re taking a trip to Greece 🇬🇷 through our experience of this Gaia Estate Neméa Agiorgitiko 14.5% ABV (2019).
This wine is made from Agiorgitiko (ah-your-yeek-tee-ko), a rare grape variety native to Greece. It hails from Nemea, an appellation in the northeast corner of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.
Just imagine sun-soaked vineyards surrounded by steep slopes and deep valleys, graced with cooling influences from the elevation and altitude of this region. It has a medium ruby hue and aromatically intense notes of cherry, plum sauce, red apple skin, violet, rose water, anise, mint, sawdust, clove, nutmeg, and vanilla.
On the palate, this wine is dry with medium+ acidity, a medium+ body, high alcohol, medium+ fine-grained tannins, and medium+ intensity in flavors consistent with the nose. This wine has a medium+ finish that lingers.
It is wonderfully balanced between acidity and ripe fruit characteristics and offers strong complexity and a solid structure across acid, tannin, alcohol and fruit concentration.
We love traversing this beautiful planet through the senses, tasting wine and conjuring images of the land and vine from which it came.
Here we’re taking a trip to Greece 🇬🇷 through our experience of this Gaia Estate Neméa Agiorgitiko 14.5% ABV (2019).
This wine is made from Agiorgitiko (ah-your-yeek-tee-ko), a rare grape variety native to Greece. It hails from Nemea, an appellation in the northeast corner of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.
Just imagine sun-soaked vineyards surrounded by steep slopes and deep valleys, graced with cooling influences from the elevation and altitude of this region. It has a medium ruby hue and aromatically intense notes of cherry, plum sauce, red apple skin, violet, rose water, anise, mint, sawdust, clove, nutmeg, and vanilla.
On the palate, this wine is dry with medium+ acidity, a medium+ body, high alcohol, medium+ fine-grained tannins, and medium+ intensity in flavors consistent with the nose. This wine has a medium+ finish that lingers.
It is wonderfully balanced between acidity and ripe fruit characteristics and offers strong complexity and a solid structure across acid, tannin, alcohol and fruit concentration.
Smooth, depth, fruit, just plain good.
Smooth, depth, fruit, just plain good.
Mar 15th, 2022It’s been a few years since I last opened one of these, and this is the first of the 2013s. They are ageing great. Super aromatic, perfumed berries and herbs. Cherries and spices and structure and finish.
It’s been a few years since I last opened one of these, and this is the first of the 2013s. They are ageing great. Super aromatic, perfumed berries and herbs. Cherries and spices and structure and finish.
Nov 21st, 2021
Bright fiery cinnamon, a little high alcohol but nice with food.
Bright fiery cinnamon, a little high alcohol but nice with food.
Jan 27th, 2019Nose like a new world Sangiovese. Spicy and tannic. Fun.
Nose like a new world Sangiovese. Spicy and tannic. Fun.
Mar 11th, 2018So good, so balanced. Fruit, tannins, acidity.
So good, so balanced. Fruit, tannins, acidity.
Sep 23rd, 2017This may have been a corked bottle. Tasteless red wine, nothing worth drinking.
This may have been a corked bottle. Tasteless red wine, nothing worth drinking.
May 14th, 2017