Agiorgitiko Red Dry Wine

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.

Medium deep ruby garnet core and garnet rim. Sweet plummy fruit , touch of spice and vanilla , violets . On the palate round and ripe with plum , damson , dark cherry and black tea hints . Balanced acidity , quite rounded tannins , touch of warmth on the anis tinged finish . This is firmly in its drinking window and shows it can stay at this level for a while longer , now and over the next 5 years.

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.

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.

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.

Bright fiery cinnamon, a little high alcohol but nice with food.

Nose like a new world Sangiovese. Spicy and tannic. Fun.

One of my favourites

So good, so balanced. Fruit, tannins, acidity.