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This Is What
Real History Reveals

Domaine Gaias
Nemea 1999
Nemea - Greece
Agiorgitiko
16.19 EUR - Alc. vol. 13,5%

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These olive trees
Yes, these olive trees might have been, or I'd like them to have been, planted when Venetian rulers on Corfu gave minor priviledges to those planting 100 olive trees, and a total annihilation of taxes if 1000 trees were planted. - That was hundreds and hundreds of years way back in the the past. But, the olive trees are there!

The Agiorgitiko
Yes, the Agiorgitiko! It propably has a history going far deeper than Venetian olive trees. Perhaps Zeus sipped something fermented from it?

The Present Agiorgitiko
Being a very delicate grape, this wine made of agiorgitiko, by Domaine Gaias, gives due respect to the fruity character of the grape, and adds to it some strenght, power, by craftmanship. The nose of unmistakable agiorgitiko greets you straight off when uncorking. There probably is not a grape, from which wines are made, with a more definitive and delicate nose than agiorgitiko. - Loosing that "perfume" by over-manufacturing would be like killing something that reminds us - almost of Homer.

The Taste
Though we might now be speaking of totally different spheres of wine, I can't help telling this: In a nice taverna (in Moraitika, Corfu) the chief waiter seemed to know everything. He graded our wish for grilled feta below saganaki (our beloved appetizer), which is propably true. But what infuriated me (more) was his degrading attitude towards Greek wines. - The taverna had only open wine on the list, and when asked for something in the bottle, the answer was "We have the FINEST wine in Greece, Gava Boutari, but it's 27 EUR (open wine for 6 EUR)." - The finest wine in Greece? Gava Boutari? - Yes, it's a nice wine. But not worth 27 EUR, even if served. It buys for ~7 EUR in the shop. And the waiter wasn't even giving oral credit to Grande Reserva Boutari! - All of this is only trying to make it evident that there are really fine wines in Greece. Like Domaine Gaias, Spiropoulos Porfyros, Hatzimihailis, Amethystos Lazaridi, Katogi Averoff... and dozens of not yet discovered treats...

This Nemea
With clearly a dozen or more previous Nemeas still lingering at the back of my skull, this happens to be (so far) the backboniest, and most harmonious, of this delicate sort I've ever tasted.

-Hannu
October 16, 2003

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