Anagennisi Estate Agiorgitiko Reserve Nemea

Unbalanced nose to palate. Expressive with red fruit, earthy minerality and traces of volatile acidity. Monolithic and boring palate. Past its best.

Tasted at Nemea town hall, during the "Nemea Great Days" festivities. This is one of the lesser-known estates, and this wine was one of the few pleasent surprises, at an otherwise inexciting wine tasting. Dark garnet in color, with an elegant nose of cherries, cherry candy, violets, mint and hints of red pepper. Quite different to any other Nemea I have tasted to date, but strangely not atypical, since all the signature components of the agiorgitiko grape were there, but …