Brettos

Variety Composition: Gewürztraminer 85%, Malagouzia 15%.

Location: “Horses” single vineyard, at an altitude of 690 meters, with Northwest orientation, facing mount Voras.

Region: Amyndeon plateau. Amyndeon viticulture zone.

Vineyard: 69ha of Linear, privately owned vineyard situated at an altitude of 620-710 m.

Soil: Sandy - sandy clay soil of excellent drainage.

Climate: Semi continental with important precipitations, many snowfalls during winters. Fresh, rather dry summers, with cool nights. Year long Northwestern winds. Absence of spring frost.

Harvest: Manual harvesting in small picking boxes with strict grape selection, that have achieved optimum ripening status.
November 11th 2007. Late harvest.

Yield: 2.100 kg / ha, for the 2007 harvest, post to green harvest & selection.

Density of Plantation: 3.900 shoots / ha.

Vinification Method: Controlled alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks with cooling jackets, maintenance of wine “sur lie” for nine months with regular stirring.

Ageing: Twelve months in Allie - Bertrange oak casks medium toast and a further twelve months in the bottle.

Analytical Data:
Alcohol: 14% vol.,
Total acidity: 5,8 g/l.,
Residual sugar: 100,5 g/l.,
pH: 3,33.

Tasting Characteristics: Allowing the fruit to stay on the vine and dehydrate intensifies aromas and flavours to the point of perfection. Is a full flavoured wine exhibiting rose-petals, pear and apricot character, and the spicy floral aromas characteristic of the Gewurztraminer grape. The residual sugar is well balanced by acidity, so that the overall effect is refreshing, neither cloying nor tart. This wine has a pleasant, long finish.
The Late Harvest Omega is superb served all by itself, or excellent with a wide variety of fruity desserts. I am particularly fond of this wine with pate at the commencement of the meal, or just with fruit at the meal’s end. Drink between now and 2017.br>
Agronomist-Viticulture Experts: Dr Stefanos Koundouras.

Vine Grower: Makis Mavridis.

Wine Maker: Angelos Iatridis.

ALPHA ESTATE winery is located at the neighboring to the privately owned vineyards of the viticulture exploitation. That means that transport of the grapes from the vineyard to the winery during harvest is done at the shortest possible time. Close proximity, in combination with transport in special refrigerators and harvest at the coolest hours of the day underline the outmost respect and protection of the organoleptic characteristics of the wine grapes. Natural gravity, a concept applied from the design of the winery, is exploited throughout the winemaking process, with the minimum possible stress to the first material. All construction materials are highly inactive and neutral in order to secure absolute neutral atmosphere conditions inside the winery, protecting the quality of the grape, the must and the wine.

Managing the winery is simplified by applying a totally integrated building management system at all levels, from the winery process to the machinery and mechanical functions both inside the winery and from distance, from any part of the world. Large part of the winery and its state of the art machinery of the latest available winemaking technology are monitored directly by the suppliers of this equipment on line, through modems, in order to secure optimum performance. The winery equipment installed satisfies the winemakers philosophy: ABSOLUTE RESPECT TO THE ECOSYSTEM, THE VINEGROWER AND THE WINELOVER.

But the most important and greater space of the winery is the underground cellar which houses at ideal and optimum conditions all through the year the oak casks were ALPHA ESTATE's wines are aged. A specially designed path has been designed and created for the winery visitor in order for him to be able to visit the underground cask cellar without disturbing the quietness of the wines ageing inside the casks. Details can of course be obtained at first hand with a prescheduled visit to the winery.

Finally the tasting room consists the point were design ends and pleasure begins for ALPHA ESTATE wines. The tasting room is completed by a thematical presentation room and a shop, were not only ALPHA wines but books and wine related articles will be available. All three in the area of the underground oak casks cellar.