It is one of the wines you will always remember. Is it the name? Orgion. Is it that it will take some time to process when you taste it? This is the case with all Evriviades’s wines.
With the variety being associated exclusively with dessert enhanced wines, the Orgion of Evryviadis Sclavos, in 1996 was the first dry wine made by Mavrodaphne. The wine that astonished everybody. The one that opened the way for the wine revolution of the Mavrodaphne varietal and the Ionian island.
The first planting of the family vineyard in Paliki Cephalonia took place in 1919. In 1986, it was biologically certified and since 1996 it follows the principles of biodynamic cultivation. In fact, the homodynamic cultivation, which is the Italian approach to biodynamic cultivation.
The Orgion red wine is released in two versions. The conventional from non-organic cooperating vineyards, and Organic from the family-owned vineyards with their autochthonous plants over 70 years of age. On the outside, there is almost no difference, with a small sign stating its organic certification. Inside, however, a completely different condensation, annoying complexity and chocolate finish that you will take home with you.
Sandy-rocky soils, cup-shaped vines, and yields at 2500 kgs/ acre give perfectly concentrated berries. The sulphite levels flirt with those of natural wines since after the fermentation (alcoholic and malolactic) and maturation in oak barrels, the bottling is done without filtering and further sulphating.
Limited production, the 2017 Organic Orgion by Sclavos from Lixouri, Cephalonia (or a place near Cephalonia as the locals say) is one of those you will surely worship if you have not already done so. If you find it because most of it has an international career.
