2022 Domaine Zafeirakis 'Microcosmos' Malagousia

The Zafeirakis family has been involved with viticulture in Tyrnavos in eastern-central Greece for more than 100 years. Christos Zafeirakis is the fourth generation to continue the family tradition; he got his degree in oenology in Athens in 2000, and then went on the get his masters from the University of Milan in 2004. Soon after he returned to Greece and continued to make high quality wines from organically farmed vineyards, the same way his father had done. He made the first wines from his private vineyards in 2005.

" In a line-up of pleasantly fleshy and soft malagousia wines, this is the outlier: leaving aside the flowers and apricots typical of this semi-aromatic white variety, this wine is all about its savory underpinnings, salinity and dried garden herbs. From an unusually cool vintage for torrid Tyrnavos, the 2022 Microcosmos is stony and structured, with plenty of acid and citrus pith. It adds more dimensions, more axes for vibration, with every hour open, inviting one to ponder instead the macrocosmos." - W&S

Wine & Spirits | 95 pts