RUE DU SOLEIL DAY TWO - JIMA WINERY

Rue du Soleil Day Two Jima Winery puts Arta on the wine map for good and makes us wonder how Arta can be so reminiscent of Napa! This wine really excited us from the first moment, both with its New World style and the history behind it!

Things are as follows. Panagiotis Tzimas is a chemist-oenologist who fell in love with wine and decided to reach the limits of this love. In 2013 he started planting and setting up his own vineyard in Kalomodia, Arta. At the same time, he started attending classes for the Diploma WSET, one of the most important titles in the field of wine, which he won a few years later. Having acquired the know-how and recognizing the soil potential of the area, he decided to plant Merlot and Cabernet Franc.

The vineyard is located a few kilometers away from the Amvrakikos gulf and so the soil is rich in clay, calcium, and marine fossils. This type of soil is responsible for some of the most robust red wines in the world. So is Rue du Soleil Day 2 Jima Winery which consists of Merlot (80%) and Cabernet Franc (20%). The wine ferments with selected yeasts and matures in oak barrels of 220 liters (50% new), for over 12 months. It is bottled unfiltered in only 1800 bottles, with a label created by an artist, a friend of the Jima family. The label every year will be a different piece of art since Panagiotis Tzimas believes that every year is unique (and he is right).

Rue du Soleil Day 2 Jima Winery is enjoyable now but also in the next 5 -10 years.

It has a deep purple color and an intoxicating nose, full of plums, sour cherries, black cherries, blueberries, and sweet spices such as vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, and licorice. Hints of milk chocolate, leather, tobacco, cigar, lavender, and evening primrose complete the complex set.

In the mouth, it is rich, with crisp acidity and moderate (+) but ripe tannins. Ripe black cherry, blueberry, plum, and blackberry are framed by notes of pepper, vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa, cedar, tobacco, and eucalyptus.