Which wine is typical and which is not?
By Yiannis Karakasis MW
Recently, during the blind tasting of the first ten wines for the 50 Great Greek Wines, we discussed which wine is typical and which is not. The wine that caused the debate was an unoaked Nemea Agiorgitiko, in the sense that we are more familiar with and consider oaked Nemea wines as more typical. So let us explain the meaning of the term typicality. A first interpretation of typicality is that a specific wine has the characteristics we expect it to have that are related to the region and (perhaps) the pure expression of a variety.
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