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2016 Ktima Ligas Xinomavro Spira

Xinomavro

  • Greece
  • Macedonia
  • Pella

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  • Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 points

    March 15, 2019 - Xinomavro is the great black grape of Greece. You can't make out the color of this through the dark, heavy bottle, but the back label says "vin blanc." Say what?? It pours out a beautifully radiant hue somewhere in the haze between orange and a coppery rosé. Despite the vintage date it is apparently actually a solera of several vintages, but I don't taste any hint of oxidation. The fruit is so vivid it's almost a molecular gastronomic experience - you drink this weirdly yet enticingly colored liquid and then it's like nymphs plucking fresh white cherries from the trees and dropping them in your mouth. The flavors are deeper than the assyrtiko but it *feels* more white-wine-like than the assyrtiko; whatever skin contact was enough to give it color was not enough to impart any of those fierce xinomavro tannins as this is smooth and slick and goes down the gullet like an oyster.

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