Santo Wines
Santo Wines was founded in 1947 as the Union of Santorini Cooperatives and represented all Santorini wineries. Today, Santo Wines is the biggest producer on the island. The new, state-of-the-art winery was built in 1992 and is situated on the edge of the Caldera in the village of Pyrgos.
Santo Wines, representing all the producers on the island, is committed to producing authentic Santorini wines of superior quality while respecting the Santorini traditional vinification techniques and protecting the precious Santorini vineyards. They developed their own Research and Development Department to regularly launch special projects to evaluate methods to improve cultivation techniques, vinification processes and varietal quality.
Santo Wines, representing all the producers on the island, is committed to producing authentic Santorini wines of superior quality while respecting the Santorini traditional vinification techniques and protecting the precious Santorini vineyards. They developed their own Research and Development Department to regularly launch special projects to evaluate methods to improve cultivation techniques, vinification processes and varietal quality.
Source: https://www.santowines.gr/en/
Santo Wines 'Grande Reserve' Santorini Assyritko 2014
Wine Advocate 95 "The 2014 Santorini Grande Reserve is an Assyrtiko aged for 12 months in a mixture of new (40%) and used (60% second- to third-use) French barriques. It comes in at 14.8% alcohol. Sourced from the co-op's oldest vines (up to 150 years old, with an average age of 100 years) in
Item Number: 26681
Bottle:$35.95
Santo Wines Santorini Assyritko 2017
Wine Advocate 89 "The 2017 Assyrtiko, the standard Santorini here, is unoaked and comes in at 13.3% alcohol. Showing reasonable depth for the level and fine balance, this drinks beautifully right now. What it doesn't show is a lot of potential for the future. It's neither as intense nor as big as
Santo Wines Santorini Assyritko 2016
Wine Advocate 90 "The 2016 Assyrtiko is unoaked and comes in at 13.5% alcohol. Clean, fresh, beautifully balanced and just a little earthy, this has good concentration, length on the finish and a serious feel. There's just a hint of lemon, but that will pull into the whole well. It's a wine with
Santo Wines Assyritko 2015
Wine Advocate 91 "The 2015 Assyrtiko is unoaked and comes in at 12.9% alcohol. The diversity of styles on the island can sometimes be fascinating. Comparing this relatively fruity and clean (if still very tense and gripping) Assyrtiko with, say, the stony Canava Roussos in this report is an
Santo Wines Assyritko 2014
Wine Advocate 89 "The 2014 Assyrtiko is unoaked and comes in at 13% alcohol. It is surprisingly nice as it expands in the glass; "surprisingly" because it started a bit dull and closed, and then opened nicely. It began to show more lushness and a bit more persistence on the finish. While not
Santo Wines Assyritko 2013
Wine Spectator 91 "Intense golden raisin, tarragon and grapefruit flavors give this white good cut. Very minerally in the mid palate, with a luscious finish that combines candied mint and dried mango flavor. Exotic and richly spiced. Drink now through 2020. 40,000 cases made. " ~ KM "
