2023 Markogianni Winery Vorias & Helios Roditis PGI Illia Peloponnese, Greece Eric Bordelet and no sulfur additions or

and no sulfur additions or filtration

For the final decision

“A ‘Rina” means sand in local dialect

with  one year of aging in small oak barrels

and one erroneously tends to say not the most complex one either

2023 Markogianni Winery Vorias & Helios Roditis PGI Illia Peloponnese, Greece Eric Bordelet and no sulfur additions orRoditis Alepou, vines 35 years old, farmed organically on sandy clay. This is part of their low intervention range. Spontaneous fermentation in open wooden vats, with the skins for the first 12 days. Takes another 2 months for the ferment to finish. Then 4 months on fine lees. Mid, cloudy orange gold. Complex salty sour apricot nose. Bitter orange. Dry, gently tannic, lots of flavour but not obviously Roditis. Deep and chewy with a bitter fresh long