Ktima Apostolidi Rosé Du Vieux Village Brut 2023

This wine has the energy and zip we love of modern Greek wine. And simultaneously the serious gastronomic structure of a grower rosé Champagne. A blend of 80% Malvasia (think fruity and floral) and 20% Agiorgitiko (Greece's answer to Sangiovese...), this wine is bursting with aromas of sour cherry, wild strawberry and orange peel. The palate is lively and crisp with just a subtle brioche flavour from it's traditional Champagne Method production. A wonderful thinking aperitif, or a very lovely accompaniment to grilled prawns.

Ktima Apostolidi’s story begins in 1958 when Efthymios Apostolidis planted the first vineyard in Dialekto Kavala, on the foothills of the Macedonian mountain basin, on the border with the river Nestos and Thrace. Lots of development was achieved over the years, and a new page was turned in 2007, when a visitable state-of-the-art winery with a 10 hectare area was established. In recent years the third generation of the winery, Vasiliki and Efthymios, took over the reins to the business. The winery started with new strict and qualitative goals with innovative methods in the vineyard and in the cellar. Today the 16 hectares of the family’s vineyards are cultivated in a biodynamic way.

For the team, wine is a sum of different components that need to be researched, discovered and linked together. Connected to nature, nature challenges them to adapt to it, to take risks to constantly improve quality. They aim at determination to try with persistence to discover nature and also themselves. Their ethos and belief is that if they want to bring out the liveliness, freshness and precision in our wines in the future, they need to understand the natural conditions and to tie the different ingredients with the greatest respect to the environment.