A Greek Unicorn Wine: Tatsis Sweet 2011
What is a ''unicorn'' wine or shall I say a ''mermaid'' wine in an ocean context? Unicorns were mythical creatures of exquisite beauty, horse or goat-like possessing a large, pointed, horn projecting from their heads. That made them stand out from the crowd I reckon. As a wine term now it is often used, mostly by somms, to describe a very rare almost impossible to get bottle, a bottle that hardly exists.
Are there unicorn wines in Greece, wines that combine both true rarity and extraordinary beauty? I was wondering about that for quite some time thinking that maybe this or that wine had the unicorn touch but I was not 100% sure. Until I re-tasted a sweet wine from Tatsis Winery in Goumenissa, Northern Greece, a wine that ticked immediately all the boxes.
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