2020 Domaine Glinavos Protos Inos Debina Zitsa, Greece Henri Germain Standing for V

Standing for V

It has lots of freshness and acidity and displays more precision and definition than the 2020 that I also had the chance to taste

When they retired and we began farming their estate vineyard

western orientated

The abandonment of small barrels rid these naturally ethereal wines of an unnecessary heavy weight

2020 Domaine Glinavos Protos Inos Debina Zitsa, Greece Henri Germain Standing for VEpirus is west of Macedonia and south of Albania. Like lots of Greece, this is a region of both rugged mountains, and wind swept seaside. In the 1970s, there were not a ton of boutique, pioneers of winemaking in Greece. Lefteris Glinavos was one of them. After working and training in Bordeaux, Lefteris returned to Epirus to marry his modern learnings with his traditional homeland. Today, his son, Thomas, runs their winery and 20 hectares scattered