Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 spirits-template landing on Grenache and Syrah

landing on Grenache and Syrah from Plan de Dieu and Visan

this family-run house has maintained an uncompromising approach across three generations

Twenty-six months on the lees give it depth

and pipe tobacco

and it carries the producer's signature mix of mineral lift

Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 spirits-template landing on Grenache and SyrahAnna 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,