Associate Editor and Taster Claire Nesbitt sits down with T-Oinos Consulting Enologist Stephane Derenoncourt to find out how he got started at the Greek winery and what style of wine he's trying to achieve there with his current project.
Stephane tells Claire his original intention was to make a wine that was "very clean and very different in terms of winemaking." To do this, he stopped the use of oak vats in the making of white wines and also changed the composition of the soil in the vineyards. For the red wines, he chose specific vineyard parcels comprised of clay and schist in order to make "a very good grape with very good ripeness."
Check out the wines they tasted:
T-OINOS MAVROTRAGANO CYCLADES CLOS STÉGASTA RARE 2018
T-OINOS ASSYRTIKO CYCLADES CLOS STÉGASTA RARE 2018
T-OINOS MAVROTRAGANO CYCLADES CLOS STÉGASTA 2018
T-OINOS ASSYRTIKO CYCLADES CLOS STÉGASTA 2020