Description
Blanc de Rose from Thymiopoulos Vineyards is one of the rarest, most talked-about, and most unconventional Greek wines of recent years. It’s a winemaking “accident” that turned into a masterful, collectible, long-aged wine. The wine began in 2009 as an attempt to make a standard Xinomavro rosé (Rosé de Xinomavro). However, due to an unusually cold winter, alcoholic fermentation abruptly stopped. Rather than discard it, Apostolos Thymiopoulos chose to let the wine sit on its lees in the tank for a full six years. In 2015, he removed part of the wine and replaced it with whole clusters of high-altitude Malagouzia, so that its natural sugars would “wake up” and restart fermentation. This new blend then fermented for another three years, and after bottling, the wine rested for an additional four years before being released to market.
