Domaine Tatsis 'Xiropotamos' 2020

Domaine Tatsis 'Xiropotamos' 2020Xinomavro Blanc de Noirs

Agronomist Maricruz Antolín heads this project that was one of the first in the region to make fully organic and Demeter-certified Biodynamic wines

Dark oxidative notes of orange peel

and 5% mixed indigenous varieties

and it's made me want to buy a plane ticket and take a nice long vacation there

and he’s experimenting using reclaimed amphorae (refurbished at the winery using the local clay)

and Vasilis Vaimakis is without a doubt one of the references when it comes to fermenting wines naturally and zero sulfur vinification

But now it has just roughly half of the vineyards and production it once did

Vermentinu (they spell it with a u on the island) comes from a tiny

Jorge Santos & Rui Lopes are finding and reviving parts of Portugal's history that have been forgotten

"but it's important for the vigneron to be happy with what he's doing

Distinctive and beautiful

with more dimension and balance