Domaine Tatsis "Xinomavro" Macedonia, 2011
$41.00
Domaine Tatsis "Xinomavro" Macedonia, 2011
$41.00
description
100% Xinomavro
Aged in oak casks followed by 10 years in bottle
From the producer:
Built at the foot of Paikos, Goumenissa is a community district of the Municipality of Paionia in the prefecture of Kilkis with a population of 4500 inhabitants, just 65 km from Thessaloniki. The town was created during the first years of the Turkish rule with the amalgamation of agricultural settlements around the powerful monastery of Panagia. The area developed into an important wine and sericulture center. From 1922 to 1925, a significant number of refugees from Eastern Romilia (Northern Thrace) and Pontus settled in Goumenissa, who enriched the local tradition with new elements. Far away in time and place, the Tatsis family's involvement with vines and wine began, it originates from Ano Vodeno in Eastern Romilia, an area of viticulture for centuries. In 1924, the refugee grandparents chose Goumenissa, also a vineyard, as a place of settlement. The Tatsis family, from 1924 onwards, acquired vines on the Libaskerit and Gerakona hills, a total area of 150 acres, places ideal for viticulture in limestone soils that are not irrigated and are worked by the family, first the grandfather, then the son Christos together with the sons of Pericles and Stergios.
Since 1998 the cultivation of the vines has been certified organic, and since 2002 they have been cultivated with the method of biodynamic cultivation, with a hectare yield of 300 to 700 kg per hectare. In the wines produced on the estate, absolutely no oenological additives and improvers are used, such as yeasts, enzymes, glues, etc. However, this also requires an area uncontaminated by the above materials. The vinification since 2007 takes place in the new family winery and no oenological additives have been used in the production process. Aging of the wines in different sized French and American oak barrels.