Makarounas Paphos Spourtiko 2024 750ml

CYPRUS : PAPHOS

ORGANIC : Spourtiko

LIGHT-MED-BODIED, LEMON PITH, SALINE, WHITE FLOWER, CITRUS ZEST, NO OAK

Spourtiko is Cyprus's most obscure white native — low alcohol, mineral, saline, and almost impossible to find outside the island. Makarounas is the only estate winery in Cyprus, making wine exclusively from privately-owned ungrafted vines in Paphos, some of them centenarian. The island has never had phylloxera.

Whole-bunch pressed, spontaneously fermented, and aged eight months on the lees with twice-weekly bâtonnage. The lees program is the defining production decision — it pulls texture and aromatic complexity from a grape that can otherwise be neutral. The result is bright, citrus-driven, saline, and honest about its 10.5% ABV.

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