We first met assyrtiko in Santorini, its motherland. There, from porous and bone-dry volcanic soil, great wines arise. Assyrtiko traveled across the country, from the Greek Macedonian north to the Peloponnese, in the south. Suddenly we saw a completely different Assyrtiko being born through this wandering. Beautiful wines, with refreshing acidity and intensely fruity aromas – citrus and tropical – comprise a character entirely different and lighter than that of the Santorinian ancestors. Monograph Assyrtiko captures a multileveled manner, which can be achieved with this Greek variety, when it is cultivated with knowledge and persistence, on the semi-mountainous calciferous soils of Koutsi, Nemea. A Youthful Assyrtiko, friendly and refreshing, which can be enjoyed just as much with fine seafood, or on its own, unchaperoned; or perhaps just with good company…