12 months in big old barrels. Bricky mid red. Senescent fruit and sweet chestnuts. Really sweet tertiary aroma of umami-laced, spicy red fruit. Firmly but smoothly textured. Complex, layered and leathery. Chewy, honest, so full of flavour.
At the very end of a long tasting, winemaker Leto Paraskevopoulos offered me a small glass of the Gai'a NV Nemea Ritinitis Nobilis, and the effect was brilliant. The wine refreshed and immediately reset my palate. This is a "redefined" Retsina, or a wine ...