Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 NO20230712 native yeast fermentations

native yeast fermentations

Johannes Selbach and his son Sebastian aged it in the classic big Mosel foudres and left it on the lees until nearly the following harvest — a slow way to make a wine

It is made with 25 botanicals

With gentle extraction and aromatic focus

(It was called Claret until the Bordeaux wine council sent a letter asking them to stop

Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 NO20230712 native yeast fermentationsAnna Halkia returned from Australia to her family's land in Nemea, where she farms organically and makes wines from a tiny cellar behind the house. "Amber" is her skin contact take on Assyrtiko, the great Greek white grape best known from Santorini but grown here on the Peloponnese mainland. The grapes get five days on the skins, fifteen days of wild fermentation in stainless at cool temperatures, then three months on the lees before bottling unfined,