GAIA ESTATE
PDO Nemea
At the highest southwestern slopes of Koutsi, we cultivate Agiorgitiko vines with precision and care to produce a red wine of extraordinary character and remarkable aging potential. This distinctive grape variety, native to the PDO Nemea region, is grown in limited quantities to ensure concentration and complexity.
The winemaking process emphasizes full expression of Agiorgitiko’s dense, rich fruit. Following fermentation, an extended maceration extracts deep color, tannins, and aromatic compounds, capturing the grape’s true essence. The wine then matures for a minimum of 12 months in carefully selected new French oak barrels (225 liters), where every detail—from the forest origin and toast level of the barrels to the wood’s cut—has been meticulously chosen to enhance complexity and structure.
GAIA ESTATE is bottled directly from the barrel, without filtration or chilling, preserving its natural vibrancy and essential characteristics. It displays a profound red-black hue with a complex bouquet of ripe fruit, vanilla, wood spices, and floral notes. On the palate, it is full-bodied and rich, with superb volume, structure, and lingering flavor—a true expression of Nemea’s terroir.
This wine is built for aging. Stored at 12–14°C, it will evolve beautifully over 20 years. Decanting for at least 30 minutes before serving will reveal its full depth and excitement.
At the top of the steep Southwestern slopes of Koutsi, we cultivate our Agiorgitiko vines with an eye towards the creation of a red wine of exceptional personality and great aging potential, aiming to take all the compounds needed from a very small amount of grapes.
This winemaking is done in such a way that the already dense grape can be expressed in wine, in the most absolute and complete way. The very long extraction after fermentation is the key point of the first phase of the vinification. Afterwards, the new wine will mature for at least of 12 months in new 225-liter French oak casks. The origin of the forest and the degree of burning, the way of cutting the used wood and every small detail, has been examined and chosen so we eventually get a wine with a high complex personality.
Ultimately, GAIA ESTATE is bottled directly from the barrel without prior treatments, such as chilling or filtration. In this way, we preserve the best of all the essential elements of our wine.
GAIA ESTATE has a deep red-black color, complex and high intense aromatic profile with sides elements of fruit, wood, vanilla and carnation. Mouth filling, volume, body, structure and flavor complement the character of this unusual Nemea.
Without a doubt, this is an aging wine. Under proper cellar conditions and temperature 12ο-14ο C it continues to evolve into an even better and more structured wine for the next 20 years.
Remember to take time to decant GAIA ESTATE, at least half an hour before you enjoy it. Its new dimension that will emerge, will excite!
It consists of a shallow (70-80cm) clay layer that lies upon the lime mother soil with relatively neutral ph. Low organic content, like most of the limestone soils in Greece. On the slopes of the hills where most of the vineyards are located, the soils drain quite well but are exposed to erosion.
Cold and humid winters with low temperatures that rarely drop below the freezing point. Summers are warm, without excessively high temperatures and with few showers during June. Typically, a long Indian type autumn follows the summer. The warm September days with significantly colder nights and the dry conditions synthesize an ideal weather pattern for a good maturation. The total rain precipitations (600-700mm annually) occur mainly between October and March.
Owned 40 years old in the semi-mountainous commune KOUTSI in NEMEA, at an altitude of 450-550 m with an intense slope # 15% & N-S.W direction. This vineyard is pruned very strictly in order to reduce its high fertile buds.
The winery was built in 1997 at the heart of the private vineyard in Koutsi, Nemea at an altitude of 550m. Our winery in Koutsi is housed in a contemporary industrial building with magnificent views of the plains of Nemea and the valley of Asopos River, around 350m below. Its capacity is 3,060 hectoliters while its production equipment and the high-quality control systems offer to the oenologist every state-of-the-art instrument for a vertical production of high quality wines.
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Awards-Ratings
26
2016
Decanter
Silver
2016
50GGW
7th Position
2016
Wine & Spirits
90/100
2013
Wine Advocate
93+/100
2013
TEXSOM
Gold
2012
Wine Advocate
92/100
2012
Decanter
Regional Trophy
2012
Decanter
Gold
2010
Wine & Spectator
92/100
2010
Decanter
Silver
2008
Wine & Spirits
92/100
2008
Decanter
Silver
2007
Decanter
Regional Trophy
2007
Decanter
Gold
2007
Wine Advocate
91/100
2007
Wine & Spirits
91/100
2007
Wine & Spirits
Year’s Best
2006
Wine & Spirits
90/100
2006
Wine Advocate
94/100
2006
Decanter
Regional Trophy
2006
Decanter
Gold
2005
Wine Advocate
90/100
2005
Decanter
Gold
2004
Decanter
Silver
2001
Decanter
International Trophy
2001
Decanter
Gold
2017
Decanter
Silver
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