Varietal Composition: Limnio
Mount Athos Monastic Wine
Organic Wine
The eminent Mount Athos Wine comes from the organic farms of Mylopotamos and specifically from the varieties Limnio, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Limnio is a vine variety that undoubtedly demonstrates the depth of the proposal of modern Greek wines in today's wine world while the vinification of Mylopotamos gives an excellent wine with vanilla aroma.
- It has a deep red color while on the nose there are notes of dried plums, red fruits and spices.
- The taste has a firm body, generous structure with rich tannins, harmoniously polymerized, balanced acidity and prolonged sweet aftertaste.
- A wine with a large surface and with many promises to the lovers of the species who want in their cellar, wines older than ten years.
- If you pour it into a carafe before consuming it, it will "open" and give you all its rich aromas.
Mount Athos Wine Epifanis is ideally enjoyed at 16 - 18 degrees Celsius.
It was vinified in temperature-controlled winemakers for three weeks.
After malolactic fermentation, it was extracted and taken to new French oak barrels for 24 months.
In the book with the Mount Athos recipes Cooking of Mount Athos by Father Epiphanius you will find several ideal combinations for this wonderful wine.
Its mild tannins make it an ideal candidate next to baked fish, especially if the sauce also contains red wine.
Alcohol content 13%
It has the possibility of long-term aging
Mount Athos wine Epifanis has been honored with the following awards:
- Luca Maroni, for the wine EPIFANIS Mylopotamos, Mount Athos 2009, Rating: 99
- World Championships Brussels 2012
- Berliner Wein Trophy 2013
Apart from absolute qualities and ratings, the wines of Mylopotamos definitely deserve our attention, with the monks in the largest part of the Holy Monastery of Megisti Lavra, led by Father Epiphanius, continuing a tradition of more than 1000 years.y long duration with enormous complexity.
