'NOTOS' Roditis
Slopes of Aigialia PGI · Peloponnese, Greece
- 125ml
- £6
- 175ml
- £8
- Bottle
- £36
- Grape
- Roditis
- Vintage
- 2025
- Region
- Aigialia, Peloponnese
The short version
A pink grape making a white wine — Roditis skins are rose-coloured, pressed off before they colour the juice.
Third-generation family estate above the Gulf of Corinth, with vineyards past 1,000 metres.
Lemon peel and sea air. The most refreshing glass on the list.
How it tastes
Aroma & flavour
Sell it with
Fired Courgette, Smoked Ricotta & Amalfi Lemon
Smoke needs acid, not weight. The citrus-peel bite does what the Amalfi lemon already does on the plate, and there is no oak to fight the char. Light enough that it leaves the smoked ricotta alone rather than flattening it.
Where to take them next
The detail — if they ask
Picked into small crates and pressed gently, taking only the free-run must. Fermented cool — never above 15°C — and bottled under inert gas to hold the aromatics. No oak, no lees weight: the whole wine is lemon peel, orchard fruit and white flowers over a dry, stony finish.
Kanakaris
- Producer
- Third generation of the Kanakaris family at Eliki in Aigialeia. Founded by grandfather Michalis in 1979; since 2009 run by brothers Michalis, the oenologist, and Stefanos.
- Region
- Steep slopes above the Gulf of Corinth in the northern Peloponnese, where vineyards climb past 1,000 metres. Sea breezes dry the vines and cool nights slow the ripening — the regional signature is freshness.
- Grapes
- Roditis is pink-skinned but vinified as a white — the juice is pressed off immediately, so the wine comes out pale lemon. Grown hot and flat it turns flabby; grown on mountain slopes it is one of Greece's most refreshing whites.
Altitude is the whole argument for this wine. The same grape lower down makes something forgettable.