MELISSOKIPOS KOTSIFALI - MANDILARI – Organic Wines Crete

Melissokipos Kotsifali-Mandilari

PRODUCT OF ORGANIC FARMING

A pure Cretan blend with a deep, red color. An everyday wine for all occasions.

The bottles we might open every day are the most important wines in our lives, because they shape our attitudes, desires and fire our imagination. Think wine as a food. If you care where your wine comes from, how its grown or made, about health consequences, apply the same logic to wine.

Kotsifali known as the regions Pinot Noir, is a very compact cluster of Medium-sized grape, rich in alcohol and elegant aromas, so in this wine, Kotsifali is unoaked in oder to reveal its own unique personality. In contrast Mandilari, known as Cabernet, has a more intense red color, with hard, rich tannins and an intense aroma. Mandilari is oaked so that it can be smoother with more velvet tannins.

Explore to find out a very good value red wine from little – known grapes.

GRAPE VARIETIES

50% Kotsifali,
50% Mandilari

CLASSIFICATION

P.G.I Crete

VINTAGE

2023

BOTTLE

750ml

GRAPE VARIETIES: 50% Kotsifali, 50% Mandilari

CATEGORY: Dry, Red

CLASSIFICATION: P.G.I Crete

VINTAGE: 2018

BOTTLE: 750 ml

Great with

Roast
Tomato-based dishes
Wine sauce dishes

Aroma

A complex bouquet, combining fruit jam, spices as well as leather aromas.

VINIFICATION

Each grape variety is undergone to the follwing proccedure seperately: carefully selected grapes are destemming and transfering into the stainless steel vats using gravity, without mechanical means. There, maceration and fermentation take place. The marc is separated from the wine at the end of fermentation.

Kotsifali wine: malolactic fermentation in stainless steel vats.

Mandilari wine: malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels and maturation for 6 months.

As a final step, we blend the two grape variety of wines for bottling. Mild organic vinification, unfiltered.