Silphium

Silphium a plant so precious for the Romans, so rare and then driven extinct. This mythical story inspired us to create this very special and very limited cuvée.

Silphium 2024

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Tasting Notes

Bright and vivid golden sand hues. Intense nose with citrus, quince, honey and dry flower aromas. Silphium is a rich and round wine, balanced with a soft acidity that leads to a sumptuous finishing with notes of ananas, grapefruit
peals with very distinguish tannins. A gastronomic wine, crafted to evolve; while delightful now, it can be consumed immediately or set aside for the next two years, as its flavors continue to deepen.

Varieties

Fokiano and Aspro Potamisi from the ungrafted vineyards of Naxos, Athiri
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Blend

Grenache 15% with the exceptional and ungrafted vineyards of Fokiano 70%, Aspro Potamisi 5%, Monemvasia 10%

Wine-making

  • Hand made crop
  • Vertical & pneumatic pressing out
  • Fokiano, Athiri and Aspro Potamisi co-fermented
    in ceramic amphorae & inox tank
  • Ageing on fine lees for 6 months:
    in barrels, ceramic amphorae and inox tank

Ageing

Ageing on fine lees for 6 months: 10% in barrels - 90% in ceramic amphorae.