Gaia's Ammonite 2023 continues to impress us with its full body and razor-sharp acidity, perfectly capturing the terroir of Santorini. It has already stood out in the past most notably at the 50 Great Greek Wines, where it was named the best wine of the tasting and has received outstanding scores from renowned wine critics. After tasting the 2023 vintage, we're confident that its streak of accolades is far from over!
After the results were announced, the phones were buzzing and everyone was looking for Ammonite Gaia Wines because maybe no one had heard of it until its debut. Yannis Paraskevopoulos with his various Thalassitis wines has proven to us that he knows how to handle Assyrtiko and the potential of Santorini’s vineyard very well. We certainly had high expectations from Ammonite, especially when we learned that it is a single vineyard Assyrtiko, from a centuries-old vineyard, which matures for 15 months on its lees, while a small proportion of the wine matures in new French oak barrels. The result impresses both with its structure and its concentration.
Our advice is: one bottle for now and one for the next decade.
* Its name is inspired by the winery's emblem, the ammonite, a fossil marine organism. The embossed visual on the label, the mathematical Fibonacci sequence, captures the absolute mathematical harmony that can be endless and is likened to the perfection and harmony of the wine.
