Kontozisis
‘A-Grafo’
Roditis | 2019
Regular price $32.00
Product Specifications
- Producer
- Kontozisis
- Winemaker
- Andreas Kontozisis & Aphrodite Tousia
- Importer
- Eklektikon
- Country
- Greece
- Region
- Thessaly
- Sub-region
- Karditsa
- Farming
- Organic
- Type
- Orange / White
- Varietal
- Roditis
- Vintage
- 2019
- Alcohol %
- 13.5
- Sulfites added
- Minimal
- Container
- Bottle
- Volume
- 750 ml
- Background
Kontozisis has been practicing certified organic agriculture and organic vinification since 1991, one of the first to get such a certification in Greece. His long term commitment to organic practices shows his honest approach to sustainability. Having worked only with the local market of Karditsa, organic practices were something that was not appreciated, but Kontozisis insisted on farming without chemicals, and making honest, natural wines. The few loyal fans of Kontozisis wines in Karditsa were enough to keep going throughout the years, and eventually making them available to a market that fully embraced the authenticity in those wines; the big urban centers of the United States.
[...] All grapes are hand harvested and pruned from the low-yield (28 hectoliters / ha) estate-owned vineyards of 11 ha. Kontozisis uses no press (only free run wines) and no commercial yeasts.
A-Grafo Roditis is made from the gray-skinned Roditis grape in a Ramato style, with extensive skin contact of one month, made naturally with zero added sulfites." - Eklektikon
- Serving temperature
- Cold