Baked Sausage with butternut squash sun-dried cherries and onions was packed with massive flavors and the Greek Cabernet Sauvignon cleaned them away for each new forkful.
At 14% alcohol, this Greek 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon form Aepros Gatos ( best I can translate since it’s all in Greek) scores a nice 15+ points on the 20-point Dionysian scale. It is an excellent food wine and can age another 5 to 8 years easily.
I picked it up in Crete earlier this year on a wine tour with the Dionysian Society. It has high acid, not excessive alcohol, but 13.5 alcohol would have been better, and it finishes with fine tannins and black fruits. It was 10 Euros in Greece and is only in New York right now. Greek wines are among the world’s best food wines. In vino veritas, meaning, “In wine, there is truth,” and in Greek it’s, Oinos kai aletheia.
Made in Crete, Greece.The name of the vineyard is “Asperoulas” which is a plant with white flowers and rabbits love to next among these flowers along the walled-in vineyard.
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