IGP Macedonie Assyrtiko Maison Ligas 2018 (Orange Wine)

IGP Macedonie Assyrtiko Maison Ligas 2018 (Orange Wine) natural wine, skin contact, low sulphites. What a wow factor bottle of Orange wine for all you natural wine lovers out there. Amazing wine makers in Ktima Ligas, super vineyards, now naturally run for nearly 15 years and a superb grape which gives you depth, character and complexity. Great wine, versatile with food and delicious.

Since ancient times, the region of Pella in the Peloponnese, situated in northern Greece, was associated with wine making and described as the mother of wine, where vines abound. Jason Ligas and his Sister Meli continued the work of their Father Thomas and set about turning the normally dull Roditis grape into something very special. By converting to natural farming in the 80s after following the ideas set out by a renowned Japanese Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) whose approach to agriculture was called, ‘do nothing'. Fukuoka – whose philosophy has been described as ‘Steiner without cow horns’ – was a Japanese researcher in plant pathology who subsequently became an experimental farmer and promoter of natural farming. At Ligas by reducing the yield he was able to express the terroir and show the potential of their indigenous grapes that are normally over cropped and used for cheap jug wine. The soils are loamy, sand with very good drainage and the natural environment is expressed in his stunningly fresh and complex white wines. The reds are pretty rare and only made in good years but are also wines to be savoured.