Every dinner that respects itself must end with a dessert wine that will leave a perfect sweet memory. Either combine with sweets, or enjoy it on its own (or with a cigar), a good sweet wine can make all the difference.
When you are thinking sweet wine what is the first thing that comes in mind? Okay, not vinsanto. Certainly, the second that comes to mind is Samos. There, they traditionally produce excellent dessert wines that have won great awards in international competitions and exhibitions. The Epogdoon Vakakis Winery just started.
Until recently, and with the application of a law of 1934, only the local association had the right to make wine from all the grapes on the island of Samos. In order to highlight the wine of Samos, the rebel Nikos Vakakis stood up against the absurd law and after intense and long lasting legal battle in Greek and European courts he was recently vindicated.
Pythagoras, beyond being the father of geometry, was he who laid the foundations of music science initially correlating the length of the strings with the tone frequency. The Epogdoon is the interval lasting 9/8 and is the basis of his theory of music.
Epogdoon is the name chosen by Nikos Vakakis for his partially sun dried dessert wine from White Muscat. You probably wander what "partially sun dried" means. It means that the grapes were spread in an olive grove thus accept sun exposure only at very specific times of the day. They remained in the olive grove for 15 days. The fruit shrank, the sugar concentration exploded and condensation presaged a great sweet wine. 8 kilos of grape produce just one liter of this dessert wine.
The Epogdoon Vakakis Winery is a dessert wine full of finesse. The white Muscat of the region, does not hide its charismas in a sweet wine that is doomed to be loved as few. We can only imagine that those who tasted it at A Sip for a Cause probably agree with us.