Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 spirits-template THE PALATE

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California Trousseau on its own is rare enough

which gives the wine more layers than the typical entry-level Sancerre

deep pink hue with orange highlights

a 20-day maceration with gentle pumpovers

Halkia Corinth Assyrtiko Amber 2024 spirits-template THE PALATEAnna Halkia returned from Australia to her family's land in Nemea, where she farms organically and makes wines from a tiny cellar behind the house. "Amber" is her skin contact take on Assyrtiko, the great Greek white grape best known from Santorini but grown here on the Peloponnese mainland. The grapes get five days on the skins, fifteen days of wild fermentation in stainless at cool temperatures, then three months on the lees before bottling unfined,