Vineyard selection: Selected parcels from Episkopi
Vine age: Over 200 years old, ungrafted.
Vintage description: A mild winter with low rainfall, 155 mm total, followed by a warm, dry, windy spring. A summer without significant heat waves and continuously high temperatures, but some cool winds reduced hydric stress and disease pressure.
Harvest was ten days early.
Harvest: 2nd decade of August
Yield: 14 hl/ha
Fermentation: In stainless steel vats, at a controlled temperature of 16-17° C, lasting almost three weeks, partially uninoculated.
Maturation: Eleven months in stainless steel vats, on fine lees with occasional batonnage – three times per week for the first two first months and with diminishing frequency thereafter.