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Altana

Altana is not your pale, anonymous rosé. It’s made from Mavrothiriko, a grape that exists almost nowhere else but Tinos, and it shows.

The color is copper-salmon, the aromas all wild berries, herbs, and white pepper. It’s bright, savory, and built for the table, not the poolside.

Altana is a rosé with roots: rare grape, windswept terraces, schist soils, and the kind of attitude only Tinos can give. A bottle that proves pink wine can have both edge and identity.

Wine Details Fact Sheet
Vintage 2024
Type Rosé
Unit Size 75cl
Country Greece
Region PGI Cyclades
Primary Appellation Tinos
Varieties Mavrothiriko
Fermentation Grapes from the privately owned vineyard, harvested at the beginning of September. Contact of the grape skins with the juice for 3-4 hours at low temperatures. Fermentation with selected yeasts at low temperatures.
Aging Bottling after 4 months in the tank from the end of alcoholic fermentation.
Cork / Screw Cap Cork
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Jancis Robinson

15/20, 2018 Vintage

The producer

On Tinos, the wind doesn’t whisper. It howls. Most people hide. Yiannis “Vaptistis” Moraitis planted vines. Everyone called him crazy. They weren’t wrong—who builds a winery on a rock battered by the meltemi? But that’s exactly why his wines taste alive… Read more

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