Advent Wine Challenge Day 13: Gonidakis Potamisios
Today’s Advent wine takes us on a journey to Greece! I don’t think I’ve done a Greek wine yet, how unusual of me. Most definitely time to rectify that. And, because I love an unusual grape, I’m getting two for the price of one post today!
Advent day 13
Gonidakis Potamisios, 2021
Gonidakis Family Vineyards is one of Greece’s many island wineries. Not from the famous Santorini, but one of the often overlooked Cycladic islands, Kynthos. Owner Kostas Gonidakis focuses on Cycladic grape varieties, several of which seem to be exclusive to his vineyards. Almost certainly I got this from Greece and Grapes, my favorite wine shopping website in Greece. Since I’ve never been to Kynthos. I would like to visit these folks though.
Brilliant, pale hay in the glass with intense lemon oil and lemon and apricot fruit aromas. Medium-bodied with 13.5% alcohol. Vibrant acidity made the fruit flavors leap off the tongue as the wine lingered with a touch of vanilla cream.
It sounds simple, and it was in that it wasn’t a complex wine. But it sure as heck was a delicious wine!