Skytali from Hatzidaki Winery is a wine with an allegorical name, which moves us equally, both for the content and the story behind it. The miraculous terroir of Santorini and the inexhaustible talent bequeathed to the next generation closed in a bottle, a complex wine with enormous specific gravity.
Haridimos Hatzidakis was a huge wine genius, who touched the island's winemakers both in the soul and in the art of wine like no one else. Those lucky enough to work with him (or rather, to accompany him on the vine road) were introduced to his artistic approach to winemaking. His talent changed the logic of the most important zone of Greece and placed it on a completely different step of the podium than it was then.
In the year of his last harvest, a portion of the wine, intended for a simple Santorini, remained a little longer in contact with the lees due to the loss of Haridimos. This determined the continuation of his work by the new generation, who decided to continue bottling the wine in exactly the same way, capturing the exact image that Haridimos had for Santorini: intense, rich, and uniquely mineral.
The Skytali barrel remains in contact with the lees for 12 months and then matures for another 12 in French oak barrels. The wine is bottled in a magnum bottle unfiltered, which fully exploits the terroir of the island's unique vineyards and creates a divide if you have the strenght to resist and age it.
With admirable aging potential, the wines of Haridimos make us wine proud and write their history over time.
