Most important PDO of Peloponnese?
Nemea: 100% Agiorgitiko
Nemea PDO styles?
Dry Red
Semisweet Red (stopping ferment)
Vin Doux (sweet VdL)
VdN (spririt added to must during fermentation)
Dried Wine Grapes wine
Domaine Skouras Megas Oenos (Cabernet and Agiorgitiko, Nemea) first vintage?
1986
What Producer made 100% Agiogitiko in a rich extracted style in the 1990s?
Gai’a!
Sweet wines of Nemea can be produced by these methods (by law)
Late harvest
Air Dried
Fortified
Can Rosé be labeled as PDO in Nemea?
NO
Nemea is in this district?
Corinth (small portion in Argolida to south)
How many villages in Nemea?
How many district zones is Nemea divided into, based on altitude?
17
3
Lowest Zone of Nemea: Altitude and soil?
200-450m
Red Clay soil
Dessert wines and lightest, most fruit forward dry reds, warmest
Mid zone of Nemea is this altitude?
450-650m (poor and varied soil)
Highest elevation tier of Nemea has this soil and altitude?
650-850m, coolest of three, more limestone (considerable)
Historically in Nemea, this zone was considered the finest for serious dry reds
Middle zone, though upper zone is becoming mroe desirable for sculptural reds
Historically, in Nemea, the highest elevation tier was for this? 650-850m
Rosé
In what Cru of Nemea is Gai’a located?
Koutsi (Gai’a produced)
Limestone rich plateau 650m