Hatzidakis Winery Assyrtiko Skitali 2022
(Santorini, Greece) - [JR 17]

17/20 Points - Jancis Robinson:
"Excitingly crystalline yet with great depth of mineral fruit with an edge of lime. Really stimulating and satisfying. Long, creamy textured but super-refreshing too. Should go beautifully with our skate, brown butter and capers tonight.

Full bottle all of 1,436 g. 100% Assyrtiko from Pyrgos and Megalochori. 12 hours' cold soak. 12 months on fine lees. Unfiltered. About the Skitali bottling from the Hatzidakis family: 'During the 2016 harvest, part of the must was transferred to different stainless-steel tanks by the late, innovative oenologist, Haridimos Hatzidakis with the aim of producing PDO Santorini wine. When the wine was ready, the bottling began, but one tank did not get to be bottled before 11 August. It was of excellent quality, Haridimos Hatzidakis left it waiting there patiently because he was convinced that a wine that matures for so long on the lees could age a lot in the future. After his loss, Haridimos's assistant since 2016 had been monitoring the development of this particular wine. She was really excited at that time! It was then that she shared her observations with Haridimos's children. And that's how it all started! Inside this tank it was then hidden a small treasure. A legacy left by the Father of Wine to the new oenologist, a skitali (baton) that father Haridimos handed over to his children, Stella, Antonis and Ariadni. A wine with particularly pleasant aromas whose complexity unfolds the aspects of Assyrtiko."