OPA!!!!

Friday night was a good night. The Winedaddy settled in at home after a painfully dull work week and looked forward to an excuse to pop some corks and eat some good food (aka "looked forward to having some friends over for dinner) I was feeling a little Ebony and Ivory so I decided to go with a white wine during the simple cheese course to start and a hearty red wine with the rustic chicken dish that was our main. (i won't bore you with the silly nuances of the menu but let's just say there was lots of garlic, some convection roasting going on, and a pumpkin bread pudding just chilling in the fridge waiting to be baked).

So what to drink. I opened the fridge to get a glass of water (yes, the Winedaddy drinks non-alcoholic fluids from time to time) and noticed a bottle of white that had been chilling on the door for a few weeks. It was a bottle of white wine that the Winesis' and Winebro-in-law brought back from Santorini on their honeymoon. I gotta say, I know as much about Greek viticulture as much as Arizona Diamondbacks fans know about Baseball, but man, this was one great wine.


According to the Producer's notes, on the Sigalas website, the wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks (hooray! no oak), and has a good deal of citrus (mostly lemon) notes. Yup...pretty much sums it up. What struck me about this wine was how crisp and acidic it was on the first sip but it quickly mellows out in the mouth and rounds out with some great green apple and citrus notes that just dissolve away at the end. It was a great wine to drink with some salty manchego cheese that I served and cut through the fig spread that was there to pair with the cheese as well. It just made me realize that even as the temps finally start to act their age and tell us that it actually is fall, we can all still enjoy a nice refreshing white wine from a place known for goats and feta cheese after all. It made me go dig up the October '06 Food and Wine that had an article about the best wine makers in Greece. I'm definitely going to try a few of these.

All in all, the winesis' really did us a solid. Too bad the only US importer is in Atlanta, GA.