Kontozisis 'Sun White' Malagousia Thessaly 2023

Kontozisis 'Sun White' Malagousia Thessaly 2023Press 4 White April 2023 Direct Press Selection Kontozisis 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

Satyricon is pressed by hand in a small basket press and raised for at least 22 months in stainless steel (incredible to accept for a wine so deep and complex)

It's not buttery

A wine to truly make everyone happy

The wine goes through malolactic conversion and is bottled dry

black cherry

and Carignan fermented whole cluster in concrete

Given a gentle whole cluster maceration for a week

Only 1500 bottles made

energetic and sublime

Incredibly balanced

pick everything by hand

This is a great dry Riesling in the making