GAIA ESTATE


Atop the South-Western slopes of Koutsi, at an altitude of 650 m. we cultivate our Agiorgitiko vines with an eye toward the creation of a red wine of an exceptional personality and a great aging potential.
The yield of GAIA ESTATE’ s 12 year old vineyard is closely monitoring so that it remains low, never exceeding 56 hl/he. During wine-making, we extend the moment of extraction to its limit, giving the absolutely ripe Agiorgitiko grape the chance to express its powerful character at full strength. Afterwards, the new wine will mature for 12 months in new 225 liter French oak casks from the Nevers and Allier forests.
The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation during its first winter of aging. Ultimately, GAIA ESTATE is bottled directly from the cask without prior treatments such as chilling or filtration. In this way, we preserve the best of all the essential elements of our wine.

Awards
Upon its first release in 1999, GAIA ESTATE 1997 received the Gold Medal of the 1st International Wine Competition in Thessaloniki, together with the 1st place award for the best A.O.C. wine of the year 1999.


Analytical Standards :

Alcohol
(% vol)
Acidity in Tartaric acid (gr/lit) Sugar (gr/lit)
Gaia Estate ’00 14,00 5,23 2,00


Financial Times

“A century of wines in this rich harvest from the high street”
Jancis Robinson
11-12 December 1999

Reds
Five-star value

Gaia Estate Red 1997. This is very serious red wine, and exceptionally good for the money. If it came from Napa rather than eastern Peloponnese and a more familiar grape than Agiorgitiko, it would cost three or four times as much.


Wines
Hugo Arnold
01 January 2000

Want value-for-money drinking over the next 12 months? Look to areas previously reserved for more everyday drinking, or those where fashion seems to suggest we should not go. The following are a personal selection : Gaia Estate Red 1997


WINE SECRETS
Most Underrated Red Wines
Greek Reds
Tim Atkin

No, not a joke. Greek reds, especially those made from Xynomavro, Agiorgitiko and/or Cabernet Sauvignon, are among the Mediterranean’s great unsung wines. Look out for bottles of Gaia Estate.


BBC Good Food
Sarah Jane Evans
January 2000

Gaia Estate 1997, a Greek red made from an unknown local grape. This wine from Nemea has a bold berry nose and plummy cherry fruit, making it great with red meat.



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