Why do we love it?
Alpha One 2014 by Alpha Estate is one of the greatest, Greek, red wines! It is a wine that all collectors, and also red wine lovers, must have in their cellar for a special occasion.
Angelos Iatridis, the man behind Alpha Estate, chooses each time the 17 best barrels, the ones that express best the terroir of Amynteo, for Estate Alpha's Alpha One. The variety is not the same every year and that’s the best part of it. For the 2014 vintage, the basis for Alpha One is 100% Merlot, which comes from vineyards at an altitude of 600-700 meters. After the manual harvest, the wine ferments and ages in new, French oak barrels for 36 months. The interesting thing is that we are talking about 200% new oak, i.e. after the first 18-month maturation in new oak barrels, the wine is transferred to first-use oak barrels for another 18 months. The wine is then bottled unfiltered and aged for another 24 months in the bottle.
If you love cigars, rare steaks, and smoked whiskeys, this wine is for you (because you know how to enjoy life)!
Tastes Like
It has deep ruby color and intense aromas of tobacco, vanilla, pepper, leather, cigar box, plum, cherry, and chocolate. In the mouth, it is full-bodied, with balancing acidity and intense, ripe tannins. Ripe plums, black cherries, black raspberries, smoke, leather, bacon, smoked paprika, pepper, vanilla, cedar, and cigar fill-up the mouth in every sip.