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Roditis Nature

Santor - Roditis white - Biodynamic grower - White Greek wine - Santameri, Achaia, Peloponnese - Eklektikon

Roditis Nature is a completely natural vinification of the second most planted grape of Greece, with zero intervention and made in stainless steel tanks.

  • Grower: Sant’Or Wines
  • Vintage: 2021
  • Type: White Dry Wine
  • Grapes: Roditis 100%
  • Appellation: PGI Achaia
  • Alcohol: 10.90%
  • Bottle: 750ml
  • Viticulture: Certified Biodynamic, Certified Organic
  • Vinification: Spontaneously fermented and aged in stainless steel for 6 months, where it also went through malolactic, bottled unfiltered and unfined with minimum sulfites.
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Key Info

Viticulture

  • Certified Biodynamic & Certified Organic
  • Climate: Mediterranean climate with dry summers
  • Soil: Clay loam, schist rocks
  • Vine age: Planted in 1992
  • Altitude: 400m
  • Slope: 20º
  • Planting density: 2,500 plants/ha
  • Yield: 2.7 kg / plant
  • Irrigation: None
  • Spraying: horsetail once, nettle once, 501 once and 500P twice
  • Harvesting: Manually in plastic crates and immediate transfer to the winery

Vinification

  • Maceration: No (free run)
  • Pressing: None
  • Temperature Control: None
  • Yeast: Wild (In stainless steel tank for 18 days)
  • Malolactic: Spontanteous fermentation
  • Maturation: In stainless steel tank of 2,000lt for 6 months and then bottling
  • Clarification: Natural
  • Filtration: None
  • Production: 5000 lt
  • Alcohol: 10.90%
  • Acidity: 5.10 gr/l
  • RS: 1.90 gr/l
  • Total sulfites: 30 mg/l
  • Certification: Organic grapes, Vegan
  • Bottle: 750ml

Winery

Sant’Or wines is located outside the historical 3rd largest Greek city of Patra, and operated by a local grower, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos, who is cultivating his 4.5 ha of vineyards biodynamically, at an altitude of 600m, with no irrigation. Indigenous to the historical village of Santomeri is the rare white grape Santameriana, as well as the famous (for its sweet wines) red grape Mavrodafni (literally “black laurel”), revived through impressive dry vinifications. Panagiotis is the only grower cultivating the Santameriana grape, and one of very few making dry monovarietal Mavrodafni.

Region

Patra is the third largest city of Greece, and is famous for its carnival celebration.