2023 Aristotelis Ke Anthoula Pata Trava

WINEMAKER: Tony Zafirakos & Maddie Park-Neilson
REGION: South Pambula, NSW
VARIETY: Lambrusco, Vermentino
VITICULTURE: Organic

Lambrusco with a touch of Vermentino – this wine made of a few different picks, all gently basket pressed straight into old barrels. Due to the cool year that was, this wine went through over a month of slow fermentation before bottling with 7g/L of sugar which has now fermented to dry in bottle.

On the nose it is all wild strawberries which carries through to the generous pallet with the juicy, tangy flavours complemented perfectly by the light spritz and given great length by its fresh acidity. This is an extremely moreish wine!

This grape variety was new to our winery in 2023, and from the beginning was an absolute superstar and we can not wait to work with it in the years to come.

Aristotelis Ke Anthoula started as a family pastime. Having migrated from rural greece in the early 80s, Aristotelis and Anthoula longed for the feeling of home so they started making their own wine in a garage in the beachside suburbs of Sydney. From the beginning, all their wines were made entirely by hand (and foot) using only grapes, with no additives, no filtration or fining and no pumps or machinery.

All fruit is hand harvested and farmed with care. Our wines are still crafted from grapes alone with the aid of very little machinery. They are carefully made by hand and laboriously fussed over to extract maximum flavour and ensure they are high quality and stable. Natural, wild yeasts are used for fermentation, and there are no chemicals or preservatives added at any time. All of our wines are unfiltered and unfined and to this day we have never added (nor had a need for adding) any sulphur to our wines.