2023 Markogianni Winery Vorias & Helios Roditis PGI Illia Peloponnese, Greece Eric Bordelet with reserve ’15 and ’14

with reserve ’15 and ’14 blended

Practicing

and no sulfur additions or filtration

“A ‘Rina” means sand in local dialect

The vines were planted in 1933

2023 Markogianni Winery Vorias & Helios Roditis PGI Illia Peloponnese, Greece Eric Bordelet with reserve ’15 and ’14Roditis Alepou, vines 35 years old, farmed organically on sandy clay. This is part of their low intervention range. Spontaneous fermentation in open wooden vats, with the skins for the first 12 days. Takes another 2 months for the ferment to finish. Then 4 months on fine lees. Mid, cloudy orange gold. Complex salty sour apricot nose. Bitter orange. Dry, gently tannic, lots of flavour but not obviously Roditis. Deep and chewy with a bitter fresh long