2019 Gaia Assyrtiko Wild Ferment

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  1/22/2023 - Hallvard91 wrote: 89 Points

  Nose: perfumed, herbal notes, smoke, honey, ocean.
  Tasting: medium-bodied, med acidic to acidic, bone dry. Malolactic feel in onset, yellow apples. Green apples and citrus coming towards end with nice acidic feel, some bitterness. Some papaya. Long herbal and citrusy aftertaste. My first Assyrtiko wine, a pleasant aquaintance. 89p

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  2/11/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points

  From ungrafted, 80 year old vines. The clean and crisp, citric freshness of the grape is rounded off by the partial ageing in new 225 litre oak barrels, which delivers a lovely honeyed richness, and there is some salty minerality on the finish. A pleasant wine, but I am not getting a lot of terroir expression. It is perfectly fine, well made, but also a bit anonymous. At restaurant Lucius, Amsterdam, NL.

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  10/3/2021 - gtilley wrote:

  I really enjoyed this. It's forwardly peachy with a peach skin texture, but then a saline minerality comes through on the finish. Very pleasant.

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  8/28/2021 - ricard wrote: 90 Points

  This is a difficult one... I rarely complain about price, but £34 for this? It's not a bad wine at all, but I wouldn't pay more than £20, let alone more than £30. It has melons, peaches, some citrus, cream, an interesting smoky touch. It's got good weight, even a chewiness, and it shows ambition and seriousness. All in all a lovely wine but I'm struggling to find place and typicity. Maybe I just don't know the grape variety well enough. But also, is this Santorini? What are the characteristics of Santorini? I need to feel a sense of place here and I'm not getting it.

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  8/11/2021 - finewinebuff57 wrote: 84 Points

  I'm not a great fan of Assyrtiko if I'm honest, but this is particularly disappointing. Searing acidity. I think this needs time to settle, at the moment disjointed and unpleasant.

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