Hoot Light Red

Hoot Light Red Pouch - Georgas Family - Biodynamic farming - Certified Organic Wine - Attica, Greece, Merlot, Savatiano - Bagnum Pouch 1.5l

Hoot light red is a chillable red wine in a 1.5 liter pouch, a “bag-num”. A fun natural wine, with organic certification, at an affordable price.

  • Grower: Georgas Family
  • Vintage: 2022
  • Type: Light Red Dry Wine
  • Grapes: Merlot 70% / Savatiano 30%
  • Appellation: PGI Attica
  • Alcohol: 12.00%
  • Pouch: 1,500ml
  • Viticulture: Certified Biodynamic / Certified Organic
  • Vinification: Natural Organic vinification with low interventions, natural fermentation (2.5 months) on lees in inox tank, after a 3-hour mild pneumatic pressing, with removal of lees, and small addition of sulfites.
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Viticulture

  • Certified Biodynamic / Certified Organic
  • Climate: Dry with mild Winters and hot Summers
  • Soil: Marls on limestone
  • Vine age: Planted in 2001
  • Altitude: 100m
  • Slope: 5%
  • Planting density: 3,100 plants / ha
  • Yield: 1.8 kg / plant
  • Irrigation: Drip irrigation twice during hot summer
  • Spraying: Sulfur dusting (3 times) plus cooper once, Biodynamic 500p spray, seaweeds
  • Harvesting: Manually, in 20kg crates

Vinification

  • Maceration: Skin contact for 2 days
  • Pressing: Mild pneumatic press for 3 hours
  • Temperature Control: During fermentation
  • Fermentation: Natural for 2.5 months on its own lees in stainless steel tank
  • Malolactic: Naturally undisturbed
  • Maturation: 3 months on its own fine lees in stainless steel tank
  • Clarification: None
  • Filtration: Lees removal
  • Production: 1,000 lt
  • Alcohol: 12.00%
  • Acidity: 4.90 gr/l
  • RS: 1.00 gr/l
  • Total sulfites: 59.00 mg/I
  • Certification: Organic grapes
  • Pouch: 1,500ml

The Georgas Family is located in the historical area of Spata, the center of retsina and the unexplored Savatiano white grape, where they can trace their agriculture roots 380 years back. They cultivate their 4.5 ha of estate owned dryvineyards biodynamically, with very low yields (21 hectoliters / ha). Vinification is natural, through spontaneous fermentation, no intervention, no sulphur (for most wines), and up to a week of skin contact, which gives their wines a characteristic bronze color.

Spata is a suburb outside of Athens, the capital of Greece. Spata is known for its long tradition around wine growing and the retsina wine. It is also known for its close proximity to the largest airport of Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos.

Athens, is the capital and largest city of Greece. It is also one of the oldest cities in the world, with an immense historical and cultural importance. It is considered the cradle of western civilization, giving birth to ideas and sciences, such as democracy, philosophy, and theater. One can admire many monuments of the ancient and more recent glory of Athens, such as the Parthenon, the Syntagma square, the National Museum of Archaeology, the ancient area of Plaka, and more.