Makarounas Paphos Spourtiko 2024 750ml Niagara Peninsula fine dining — helping shape

fine dining — helping shape the identity of California Chardonnay on wine lists across the country

no blending across regions

A joint venture between Erick de Sousa of the Côte des Blancs and Olivier Leflaive of Puligny-Montrachet — two of France's most serious Chardonnay specialists — sourcing 100% from Grauves premier cru

When Laurent took over in the early 1990s

Neat give it a minute to open — the smoke settles and the honey and fruit come forward With a splash of water a teaspoon opens the nose dramatically

Makarounas Paphos Spourtiko 2024 750ml Niagara Peninsula fine dining — helping shapeCYPRUS : PAPHOS ORGANIC : Spourtiko LIGHT MED BODIED, LEMON PITH, SALINE, WHITE FLOWER, CITRUS ZEST, NO OAK Spourtiko is Cyprus's most obscure white native low alcohol, mineral, saline, and almost impossible to find outside the island. Makarounas is the only estate winery in Cyprus, making wine exclusively from privately owned ungrafted vines in Paphos, some of them centenarian. The island has never had phylloxera. Whole bunch pressed, spontaneously