Anatolikos Vineyards Limnio, Thrace, Greece 2019

Mavroudi of Thrace (60%) and Limnio (40%) are organically cultivated in the absolutely dry privately owned vineyard on the sandy hills with the granite soil of the Hirodassos area in Avdira, Xanthi. Extremely difficult conditions cause plants to have a minimum yield per hectare and a unique concentration of their fruit juices. The harvest was done by hand at the end of September and here is where the interesting part starts. If you knowNikolaidis brothers you know that experimentation is in their blood. For the long fermentation of the blend, no oak barrel or even a tank was used. Clay amphorae hosted the grapes during fermentation and maturation. It goes without saying that the fermentation was done with wild, indigenous yeasts and the pressing of the grapes was done by hand. The very few precious juice remained in the amphora with the grape mac for another 270 days. There was absolutely no addition of sulphites at any stage of the process. Without any treatment, it was bottled unfiltered and remained in the bottle until the demanding brothers decided it was ready. And now it is.