Wine of the Week: Orealios Gaea, San Gerasimo Robola 2025
Orealios Gaea San Gerasimo 2025 is a fresh, herbal, and stony Robola from Kefalonia, from carefully selected vineyards with classical white vinification. First released in 1995, it remains one of the most reliable reference points for the variety, combining typicity, balance and excellent value for money at around 14 euros.
Βy Yiannis Karakasis MW
Orealios Gaea San Gerasimo is a key reference point for Robola of Kefalonia. First released in 1995, it is based on careful vineyard selection rather than a fixed recipe. The fruit usually comes from semi-mountainous plots, from vines over ten years old, never from young vineyards.
Kostas Bazigos, the winery’s technical director, describes the work behind the wine as an ongoing mapping of the island’s vineyards. In Kefalonia, increasingly unpredictable weather means that a vineyard may perform well one year and less convincingly the next. Selection, therefore, varies from vintage to vintage. ''It is a practical, year-by-year assessment of Robola'', Bazigos says.
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