AMPHORA RHAPSODY 2015 (AGED UNDER SEA)

Amphora red dry wine from Mavrodaphne (in dry vinification).

The first in ancient way – following a mixture of ancient recipes - experimental vinification of Mavrodaphne in “amphoras”. Vintage 2015. A limited number of Rhapsody bottles are aged submerged in the sea. The wine aged in the sea in laboratory conditions (almost constant temperature, perfect absence of oxygen, salinity, pressure of 1.500 kg per cm2, darkness),was incorporated perfectly in the underwater environment and in a "metaphysical" way brings the sea breeze and iodine in the glass! The color remained like not a day passed.

After bottling (with cork and caps) the mouth and the neck of the bottles were covered with beeswax, for more safety. From these bottles, a number of 408 -numbered from 1 to 408- were placed in a steel pallet, secured and submerged into the sea of Lixouri, where remained for aging, at the sea bottom, in a depth of 22 meters, for three years. 

It has dark purple red color; nose with intense notes of exotic fruits, mouth with intensity and complexity, friendly and round tannins, entrancing the taste buds on enigmatic and uncharted taste trips!

Ratings:

Rhapsody 2015 underwater: Wine Advocate 2018: 90/100

Rhapsody 2015 submerged undersea: Wine Advocate 2018: 89/100.

Jancisrobinson 2022: Rhapsody 2015, aged under sea: 17/20