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A-Grafo Limniona Ancestral rosé

A-Grafo A-Grafo Limniona Ancestral rosé - Kontozisis Organic Vineyards - Karditsa, Greece - Natural rosé wine - USDA Organic - No Sulfites

A-Grafo (“Uncharted”, meaning of the adjacent “Agrafa mountains”), is an honest interpretation with zero-added sulfites, of the up and coming Limniona grape, by the grower who revived it in its home soil of Karditsa.

  • Grower: Kontozisis Organic Vineyards
  • Vintage: 2020
  • Type: Rosé Pet Nat Sparkling Dry Wine
  • Grapes: Limniona 100%
  • Appellation: PGI Karditsa
  • Alcohol: 12.50%
  • Bottle: 750ml
  • Viticulture: Certified organic
  • Vinification: 35 hours of maceration in stainless steel while fermenting spontaneously (no temperature control) with its native yeasts, and finishing fermentation in the bottle with subsequent manual disgorgement
  • Tasting Notes: Elegant forest fruit on the nose, bone dry palate with sharp bubbles.
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Key Info

Viticulture

  • Certified organic
  • Climate: Vineyards on flat topography, with humid microclimate.
  • Soil: Moderately 
deep sandy-loamy soils with low organic matter and neutral pH. 
Average water reserves, suitable for dry land farming.
  • Vine age: Planted in 2000
  • Altitude: 200m
  • Slope: Semi-flat
  • Planting density: 4,000 plants / ha
  • Yield: 1-1.5kg / plant
  • Irrigation: None
  • Spraying: Minimal copper, sulfur dusting
  • Harvesting: Manually

Vinification

  • Press: None
  • Maceration: Yes, with skins (5 hours)
  • Temperature Control: In the beginning of the ferm deppending on the month of harvest
  • Yeast: Indigenous ( 15 days in inox and then finishing in the bottle)
  • Malolactic: Natural (completed)
  • Maturation: In bottles
  • Clarification: Manual discorged
  • Filtration: None
  • Production: 1200 lt
  • Alcohol: 12.50%
  • Acidity: 5.30 gr/l
  • RS: 2.30 gr/l
  • Total sulfites: 0 mg/l
  • Certification: USDA Organic Wine, No Sulfites Added
  • Bottle: 750ml

Winery

Kontozisis has been practicing certified organic agriculture and organic vinification since 1991, one of the first to get such a certification in Greece. His long term commitment to organic practices shows his honest approach to sustainability. Andreas Kontozisis and his partner Aphrodite Tousia are working passionately with the area’s indigenous red grape, Limniona, among others, for which they have developed proprietary vineyard techniques to get as much concentration as possible from the variety’s large grapes. All grapes are hand harvested and pruned from the low-yield (28 hectoliters / ha) estate-owned vineyards of 11 ha. Kontozisis uses no press (only free run wines) and no commercial yeasts.

Region

Karditsa is a rural town in Thessaly, in the center of Greece. It is the bicycle capital of Greece, with many bicycle roads and many residents using them as their main transportation mean.

Its terroir is largely defined by the nearby Agrafa mountains, and the artificial Plastira lake. It is also in close proximity to the impressive Meteora rocks, which host the second most important cluster of monasteries in Greece.