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Vassaltis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022
$70.95 / bottle
Release Date September 9, 2023
Vintages #: 33859
750ml bottle
Mineral & Zesty

This product is available online as part of the LCBO's Online/In-Store Exclusive programme. Please feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com if you need any assistance locating stock.

Vassaltis is the latest addition to Santorini’s long, storied winemaking history. Owner Yannis Valambous’ passion for wine drew him back to the island of Santorini, where he spent many a happy family holiday as a child. In the wake of the 2010 Greek financial crisis, a plan took root in his mind, a plan that was part dream, part folly. Yannis sought to breathe new life into the vineyards he inherited from his father.

An exceptionally complete wine with a great ageing potential, shows the true essence of what Santorini and Assyrtiko are about: aromas of basalt and pumice stone with ripe tropical fruits, honeysuckle and maritime salinity, and a palate of salty green fruits with high levels of minerality and acidity.

The long aftertaste adds depth and weight to the wine making it a perfect pairing for seafood and fish.

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Vassaltis Assyrtiko Barrel Aged Santorini PDO 2021
$86.00 / bottle
Release Date August 3, 2023
Vintages #: 28069
750ml bottle
Mineral & Zesty

This product will be available online as part of the Cellar Collection program. Please feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com if you need any assistance locating stock.

Vassaltis is the latest addition to Santorini’s long, storied winemaking history. Owner Yannis Valambous’ passion for wine drew him back to the island of Santorini, where he spent many a happy family holiday as a child. In the wake of the 2010 Greek financial crisis, a plan took root in his mind - a plan that was part dream, part folly. Yannis sought to breathe new life into the vineyards he inherited from his father. His focus was to transform the family vineyards into a thoroughly modern, state-of-the-art boutique winery and craft exquisite wines which showcase the quality of Santorini’s grapes.

Made from 100% Assyrtiko, this wine ferments in steel tanks and is then aged in 3rd use 500lt French oak barrels on it lees. It ages for a further seven months in stainless steel tanks and eight months in the bottle before its release. This wine defeats criticism that Assyrtiko shouldn’t be aged in oak to preserve its volcanic characteristics by giving a perfectly balanced wine with great complexity and great ageing potential. Expect this wine to offer tons of the classic citrus zest this grape is known for, tempered by textural richness and notes of sliced almonds. This is a wine that will continue to evolve over time if you can be patient. 

This will be a fabulous accompaniment to cheeses like Gruyère and Provolone or smoked fish. 

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Vassaltis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022
  • White Wine
  • Assyrtiko
  • Dry
  • Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
  • Medium Bodied
  • 750ml
  • 14.00% alc./vol

Vassaltis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022

Santorini, Greece
$72.95per bottle ($437.70per case)
6 bottles per case
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Mineral & Zesty

This product is available online as part of the LCBO's Online/In-Store Exclusive programme. Please feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com if you need any assistance locating stock.

Vassaltis is the latest addition to Santorini’s long, storied winemaking history. Owner Yannis Valambous’ passion for wine drew him back to the island of Santorini, where he spent many a happy family holiday as a child. In the wake of the 2010 Greek financial crisis, a plan took root in his mind, a plan that was part dream, part folly. Yannis sought to breathe new life into the vineyards he inherited from his father.

An exceptionally complete wine with a great ageing potential, shows the true essence of what Santorini and Assyrtiko are about: aromas of basalt and pumice stone with ripe tropical fruits, honeysuckle and maritime salinity, and a palate of salty green fruits with high levels of minerality and acidity.

The long aftertaste adds depth and weight to the wine making it a perfect pairing for seafood and fish.

Press Reviews

WineAlign

94 points - David Lawrason

This has a quite fine, delicate and complex nose of hay, wildflowers, leesy spice and vague tropical fruit. Perhaps some fennel as well. It is notably rich yet elegant, much more so than expected from assyrtiko. Powerful too at $14% alcohol. It is creamy and almost lush but the minerality and warmth keep it in check. Flavours have excellent to outstanding length. Some bitterness and a salty tang on the finish. Clearly an elite white that needs some attention.

Vassaltis Assyrtiko Barrel Aged Santorini PDO 2021
  • White Wine
  • Assyrtiko
  • Volcanic
  • Dry
  • Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
  • Full Bodied
  • 750ml
  • 14% alc./vol

Vassaltis Assyrtiko Barrel Aged Santorini PDO 2021

Santorini, Greece
$88.00per bottle ($528.00per case)
6 bottles per case
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Mineral & Zesty

This product will be available online as part of the Cellar Collection program. Please feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com if you need any assistance locating stock.

Vassaltis is the latest addition to Santorini’s long, storied winemaking history. Owner Yannis Valambous’ passion for wine drew him back to the island of Santorini, where he spent many a happy family holiday as a child. In the wake of the 2010 Greek financial crisis, a plan took root in his mind - a plan that was part dream, part folly. Yannis sought to breathe new life into the vineyards he inherited from his father. His focus was to transform the family vineyards into a thoroughly modern, state-of-the-art boutique winery and craft exquisite wines which showcase the quality of Santorini’s grapes.

Made from 100% Assyrtiko, this wine ferments in steel tanks and is then aged in 3rd use 500lt French oak barrels on it lees. It ages for a further seven months in stainless steel tanks and eight months in the bottle before its release. This wine defeats criticism that Assyrtiko shouldn’t be aged in oak to preserve its volcanic characteristics by giving a perfectly balanced wine with great complexity and great ageing potential. Expect this wine to offer tons of the classic citrus zest this grape is known for, tempered by textural richness and notes of sliced almonds. This is a wine that will continue to evolve over time if you can be patient. 

This will be a fabulous accompaniment to cheeses like Gruyère and Provolone or smoked fish. 

Press Reviews

WineAlign - Michael Godel

95 Points

Vassaltis was the dream and now life's work of Yannis Valambous who resurrected his father's vineyards and turned them into some of Santorini's finest tracts. As of 2012 the project has taken root, launched forward and come to a most profound and exciting place. The consulting oenologists are Elias Roussakis and Yannis Papaeconomou who along with Valambous drill down into the island's volcanics to create haute assyrtiko with the greatest sense of place. The barrel aged style is of course Burgundian but it is impossible to smother Santorini and fully assimilate assyrtiko. Richness abounds, intensity magnifies and here assyrtiko takes on a whole next level of purpose. The methodology does allow for movement not wholly restricted to the salty and the mineral but the wine shows no lack of those elements. In the end this is about as big and rich as the grape will get. Drink 2023-2028. Tasted January 2023