T Oinos, Clos Stegasta Mavrotragano Rare, Aegean Islands

Impressive wine. We were given this wine blind and the group was split between Old and New World which is quite apt as my friend Yiannis pointed because Greek wines are sort of new wines of the Old World. Very ripe fruit accompanied by notes of graphite, ink and licorice. Abundant use of oak but still well integrated and of high quality. Velvety texture with quite a weight. It's a wine made to impress and though a new comer to …