Super dry Greek orange wine with ripe stone fruit flavors, white floral notes, creamy on the palate, well-balanced acidity, soft tannins and a mineral finish. Perfect to pair with white meat or seafood dishes on a warm sunny day!
Tasting Notes: Apricot, peach, lemon, jasmine and white pepper.
Pairing Suggestions: Greek Salad Sushi, Creamy Garlic Shells, Shrimp Scampi with Orzo
Peloponnesos, Greece
Type: White | Vintage: 2020 | Sulfur: Minimal | Varietal: Roditis | Alcohol: 10.9% | Production: Biodynamic | Style: Glou Glou
Producer Profile
Sant’Or wines is located outside the historical 3rd largest Greek city of Patra, and operated by a local grower, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos, who is cultivating his 4.5 ha of vineyards biodynamically, at an altitude of 600m, with no irrigation. Indigenous to the historical village of Santomeri is the rare white grape Santameriana, as well as the famous (for its sweet wines) red grape Mavrodafni (literally “black laurel”), revived through impressive dry vinifications. Panagiotis is the only grower cultivating the Santameriana grape, and one of very few making dry monovarietal Mavrodafni. The vineyards came to Panagiotis through his father and generations of wine growers. His vision was to continue the family tradition as authentically as possible, and raise awareness on the local indigenous grapes. His vinifications are based on healthy and rigorous fruits through dry, biodynamic vinification, and wild fermented and naturally vinified wines, with experimentation of aging in various materials (clay amphoras, cement, old oak). -Eklektikon