2006 Domaine Costa Lazaridi Oenotria Land Syrah-Agiorgitiko

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  2/12/2011 - kostaslonis wrote: 87 Points

  Dionysia wine fair: (tasted at Dionysia) Thick red color, dense nose, highly spiced over baskets of fruits. Powerful palate, full, what it seems to be the typical alcohol level of the domaine (14.5%). Thick, juicy, it could use some more concentration, it is just starting to open up, but it will need at least a couple more. Medium aftertaste. A wine for the cellar.

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  1/14/2011 - Stefanos T. wrote: 92 Points

  Deep ruby with ripe fruit aromas and sweet spices, quite complex, clean and modern. In the mouth it is quite full bodied but does not lack elegance. Texture is supple and flavour deep and mouthcoating. Still quite young but tannins are ripe although huge. This is a wine on the same style as Enotria Gi - Cabernet/Agiorgitiko with double the intesity, the concentration and more than double the price. A really impressive wine, one of the best Greek wines from international varieties but it is very expensive. At 53 euros one can buy many a classed - and aged- growths and Enotria Gi has not proven its credentials as far as ageing is concerned yet.

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  1/14/2011 - Yiannis wrote: 90 Points

  This wine is made under the consultance of Michel Rolland, and bears proudly his signatute on the label. His signature is more than obvious in the wine itself too. Very dark purple, almost opaq. Very expressive, dense and complex nose with dark chocolate, liquorice, mint, lavender, dark berries, floral notes, vanilla and hints of sweet spice. Full-bodied, very dense with BIG fruit, massive but fine-grained tannins and balancing acidity. Very long finish. Should age well. This wine is made from syrah (mainly) and agiorgitiko, sourced from the Attika region, very close to Athens. This area was never famous for producing fine wines, but yields are ridiculously low (1700 kg of fruit per hectare claimed!) and the grapes were fully ripe when picked, hence the huge concentration. A very good wine especially for those who like this style, since there is balance and structure despite the massiveness of the body and fruit. It retails in Greece for around 55 Euros, being one of the country's priciest wines. My only objection is that equally good -sometimes better- wines of this style can be found at lower prices from New World countries.

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