GaiaVinsanto By Gaia 8 Years Old Santorini NV (Half Litre)

Product code: 17567
£49.00 inc VAT
Greece
Sweet Wine from
Santorini, Greece
Country
Country: Greece
Region
Region: Santorini
Type
Type: Sweet Wine
Winery
Winery: Gaia
Alcohol
Alcohol: 11.5%
Volume
Volume: 500 ml
Winemaker
Winemaker: Yiannis Paraskevopoulos
Grape
Grape: Assyrtiko, Aidani, Athiri
Grape: 90% Assyrtiko, 5% Aidani, 5% Athiri
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Country
Country: Greece
Region
Region: Santorini
Type
Type: Sweet Wine
Winery
Winery: Gaia
Alcohol
Alcohol: 11.5%
Volume
Volume: 500 ml
Winemaker
Winemaker: Yiannis Paraskevopoulos
Grape
Grape: Assyrtiko, Aidani, Athiri
Grape: 90% Assyrtiko, 5% Aidani, 5% Athiri

Product Notes

Gaia Vinsanto by Gaia 8 Years Old is a unique and exquisite wine hailing from the beautiful island of Santorini. Made from sun-dried grapes, this Vinsanto is aged for eight years, resulting in a rich and complex flavor profile. Notes of honey, dried fruits, and caramel dance on the palate, while a hint of acidity provides balance and structure. This wine is a true reflection of the terroir of Santorini, with its volcanic soil and Mediterranean climate. Gaia Vinsanto is perfect for savoring on its own as a dessert wine or pairing with a variety of cheeses and dried fruits.

Tasting Notes

Deliciously sweet but balanced by the refreshing backbone of Assyrtiko, this is an aromatic explosion of dried fig, raisin, coffee, caramel, vanilla and cinnamon enveloping a beautifully textured palate full of flavour.

About the Winery

Gaia

The Greeks are known for traveling to various places and picking up knowledge from around the world. This rule applies to two agriculturalists, Yiannis Paraskevopoulos and Leon Karatsalos. Their love for wine took them to various wine-rich places of the world, where they learnt the tricks of the trade, before starting their own wine label, Gaia, in the year 1994. Since then, they have been doing all that they can to make the most of the two ultimate wine regions of Greece – Santorini and Nemea.

They started out with making white wines, but within a couple of years of inception, they expanded to creating red wines as well. These wines are produced from grapes grown in two vineyards – Nemea and Santorini.

Nemea – Located in the Nemea PDO (Protected Destination of Origin) Appellation of Greece. These vineyards contain vines that grow at different altitudes (250m to 850m above sea level). Officially recognised in the year 1971, this is the biggest vineyard in Greece right now. This vineyard is known for its limestone soils, warm summers and humid winters. The red varietal of Agiorgitiko is the main varietal grown here.

Santorini – This place is known for its unique ecosystem. The soil here is volcanic and porous in nature, because of the scorching summers and lack of rainfall all through the year. The Mediterranean climate of this place makes it ideal for growing one of the rarest and most indigenous white grape varietals of Greece, the Assyrtiko.

The winery in Nemea is located close to the Asopos River and gives a fantastic view of the Nemea valley. Currently, this winery can process 3060 hectalitres of wine, but it is equipped to handle more. The Santorini winery, on the other hand, is quite old as it used to be a tomato processing factory in the early 1900s.

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