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Alpha One 2013

Alpha Estate, Amyndeon, Greece

Alpha Estate
Amyndeon Greece
  • 88
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  • Country ranking ?

    9

  • Producer ranking ?

    4

  • Decanting time

    45min

  • When to drink

    2020-2025

  • Food Pairing

    Pizza

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Variety Composition:
The wine maker’s choice. The best 17 barrels of each harvest were the winemaker selects to present the absolute expression and dynamic of the Amyndeon viticulture zone.

Variety Composition: Xinomavro 50% - Mavrodaphne 50%.  

 

Region / Location / Vineyard:
Amyndeon plateau. Amyndeon viticulture zone. North-western Macedonia. "Hedgehog" sub-region. 690m altitude, with northern exposure, facing lake Petron and mou...

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Blending consultant Eric Boissenot. 36 months in 200% new French oak. Unfiltered.
Unnecessarily heavy bottle. Almost black at the core with a dark garnet rim. Smells very ripe, like ripe black cherries and just a little bit toasty. Ripe on the palate too, thick with fruit and massively concentrated. There is no lack of acidity but there is somehow a lack of freshness, as if the fruit was picked just a little too late to be vibrant. Powerful but rounded tannins. Lots of dark chocolate. A massive wine but not as elegant as the Turtles Syrah 2016. For those who like mass over elegance. I am not sure how well this will age but hope I will be proved too conservative. Second bottle is a little fresher but still the fruit is more stewed than in the 2012. Ambitious but flawed. (JH)

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Origin

Macedonia, Amyndeon

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