- Grower: Sant’Or Wines
- Vintage: 2019
- Grapes: Santameriana 100%
- Appellation: PGI Achaia
- Alcohol: 13%
- Bottle: 750ml
- Viticulture: Biodynamic (Demeter certified) / Organic (certified)
- Vinification: Spontaneously fermented in clay amphora with a 20-day maceration, no pressing, and 6-months in an outdoor buried amphora.
- Notes: A noticeably “orange” wine, with a copper color, and well integrated tannins. Aromas feature complex notes of dried apricot, honeycomb, orange peel, and intense minerality.
Santameriana Amphora is a skin contact vinification of the rare Santameriana grape, and fermented / aged in 200-year-old local reclaimed amphorae, from biodynamic, dry vineyards in its home soil of Santomeri village, in Achaia.
Viticulture
- Biodynamic (organic certified)
- Climate: Mild Winter and dry Summers
- Soil: Clay loam, schistose rocks
- Vine age: Planted in 2007
- Altitude: 400m
- Slope: Up to 60%
- Planting density: 3,000 plants / ha
- Yield: 1.15kg / plant
- Irrigation: None
- Spraying: 3 per season (sulfur dust / copper / 500 / 501)
- Harvesting: Manual
Vinification
- Maceration: 20 days in clay amphora
- Pressing: None
- Yeast: Ambient (spontaneous fermentation in clay amphora for 20 days)
- Malolactic: Completed (spontaneously)
- Maturation: 6 months in a ceramic egg
- Clarification: None (natural settling)
- Filtration: None
- Production: 2,500 lt
- Alcohol: 13%
- Acidity: 6.90 gr/l
- RS: 2.10 gr/l
- Total sulfites: 28 ppt
- Certification: Biodynamic wine (Demeter), Organic grapes, Vegan
- Bottle: 750ml