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Sun red

Sun red - Organic natural red wine - Limniona, Xinomavro - Kontozisis, Kanalia, Karditsa, Thessaly, Greece

Sun red shows the elegance and grace of the aromatic and mountainous Limniona grape, which stands out from most warm-climate red Greek varieties, in a classic leaning natural vinification.

  • Grower: Kontozisis Organic Vineyards
  • Vintage: 2021
  • Type: Red Dry Wine
  • Grapes: Limniona 100%
  • Appellation: PGI Karditsa
  • Alcohol: 13.00%
  • Bottle: 750ml
  • Viticulture: Certified Οrganic
  • Vinification: Contact with skins and stems for 2 months, aged for 10 months in old barrels, and then bottled unfiltered with a few sulfites.
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Key Info

Viticulture

  • Certified Οrganic
  • 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 between 1991 and 2000
  • Altitude: 200-250m
  • Slope: Semi-flat
  • Planting density: 4,000 plants / ha
  • Yield: 1-1.5kg / plant
  • Irrigation: None
  • Spraying: If required
  • Harvesting: Manually

Vinification

  • Maceration: Contact with skins and stems for 2 months
  • Pressing: None
  • Temperature Control: Pre-fermentation
  • Fermentation: 30 days in stainless steel tank with indigenous yeasts
  • Malolactic: Naturally completed
  • Maturation: 10 months in barrel
  • Clarification: None
  • Filtration: None
  • Production: 3,000 lt
  • Alcohol: 13.00%
  • Acidity: 5.40 gr/l
  • RS: 2.00 gr/l
  • Total sulfites: 30.00 mg/l
  • Certification: Organic grapes
  • 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.