Kontozisis 'Sun White' Malagousia Thessaly 2024

Kontozisis 'Sun White' Malagousia Thessaly 2024Kontozisis Organic Vineyards is an organic grower in Karditsa, a rural town in the region of Thessaly about 300 km or 190 miles north of Athens. Karditsa is known as the bicycle capital of Greece, and the homeland of the impressive Limniona red grape. The winery and vineyards are on the foothills of mount Agrafa, in two distinctive terroirs between Kanalia and Dafnospilia. Kontozisis has been practicing certified organic agriculture and organic

and detailed as well

he is laser focused on vineyard work that maximizes water retention and even ripening

Sadly this vineyard was wiped out in August 2022 by wildfire but Iliana has been central to rebuilding the vines lost by her and her neighbors

briny acidity

capturing the final bits of co2 as the wine finishes fermenting

While clamoring all over stacks of barrels and and towers of tanks

I really had a moment with this wine when it first arrived

but enough to give it a little texture to go along with the snappy acidity

Tasting notes: Ripe Cherry

When you taste with Eric Texier

earning it comparisons to Burgundy as far back as the 1800s

Giulia and Franco run the Masiero family farm situated in the Trinté hills