{"product_id":"1974-estate-argyros-heritage-vinsanto-santorini-greece","title":"1974 Estate Argyros, Heritage Vinsanto, Santorini, Greece","description":"\u003cp\u003eEstate Argyros was founded in 1903 in Episkopi Gonia, on the southeastern slope of Santorini, though the family had been growing vines and selling wine on the island for generations before that. Each generation added land: Matthew Argyros tripled the vineyard after 1950, and his son Yiannis, who took over in 1974, expanded it again while proving that dry assyrtiko could age and that Vinsanto belonged among the great sweet wines of the world. Today Yiannis's son Matthew, the fourth generation, runs the estate from a gravity-fed winery completed in 2015 and farms more than 120 hectares, the largest private vineyard holding on the island. The vines are ungrafted, since phylloxera has never survived in Santorini's clay-free volcanic ash, and they are trained low in the traditional kouloura basket that shields the fruit from the Aegean wind. Average vine age exceeds 70 years, and the oldest parcels pass 200.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1974 vintage was Yiannis Argyros's first year in charge of the estate, and this Vinsanto has waited in the family canava for the whole of his tenure and his son's. It was made as the estate still makes Vinsanto: assyrtiko with a tenth each of athiri and aidani, sun-dried for two weeks after harvest, then fermented slowly and spontaneously in cement. It then went into small, thoroughly used Russian, French, and Austrian oak barrels, between 300 and 1,350 liters, for half a century. No new wood ever touched it. The yields were tiny at harvest and shrank at every stage after, through drying, evaporation, and concentration From these oldest lots, a hectare gives around 400 half-liter bottles. It is bottled in 500ml.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDried apricot, walnut, burnt orange, and cinnamon fill the nose, with a saline edge that marks it as Santorini before anything else. The palate is dense as salted caramel yet lifted by acidity that has not faded in fifty years, and the finish runs on for minutes. The Wine Advocate awarded 98 points and called it nearly indestructible. It is at peak now and will hold for decades in a cool cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52345950372136,"sku":"AT74ARGYROSSANTO375","price":320.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/1974EstateArgyros_HeritageVinsanto.jpg?v=1788906426","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/1974-estate-argyros-heritage-vinsanto-santorini-greece","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}