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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending	Favorite
Ktima Pavlidis - Wine Advocate	THEMA Red	2017	91	Aug-2020
Review “The 2017 Thema red is a 60/40 blend of Syrah and Agiorgitiko aged for 12 months in 30% new French oak. It comes in at 14.6% alcohol. This has a relatively refined feel to it in the mid-palate, generally avoiding jammy fruit. It is certainly ripe and filled with flavor, though. Also focused and firm on the finish, it has the structure to support the fruit. Not truly ready to drink right now, it could use at least a year to come around. This has some potential, as yet unfulfilled. Let's lean up on this fine bargain for the moment.”
GAI'A - Wine Advocate	GAI'A Estate Agiorgitiko	2005	90	Apr-2020
Review “The 2005 Agiorgitiko Gai'a Estate is a library wine for reevaluation. The price merely reflects current release prices. When first seen, this was rather good for what I was seeing at the time, if not quite up to the top of the brand, as the brand later developed. It didn't seem to be a long ager, though. Velvety and harmonious now, this has sensual texture and a caressing mouthfeel. Refined and elegant, it just feels sophisticated. That said, the fruit is showing some age. The bright red fruit is more along the lines of baked tomato now. I was a bit concerned about how this might age—apart from my normal conservatism. In a way, it is both justifying my concern as it hits age 15 and proving that I was too conservative—a good trick, right? By that I mean, the structure here will allow this to age for some time more, but I'm not sure the fruit will keep up as well. It certainly has demonstrated some staying power, however, and more than I thought it would. With some extended aeration, it at least did not decline. The mid-palate felt deeper as the wine fleshed out a bit too. How much longer? At this point, I'd say it is uncharted territory, and I'd rather drink it now. As I like to say, though, take it in stages.”
Ktima Pavlidis - Wine Enthusiast	THEMA Red	2014	88	Apr-2020
Review “This wine has a young and chewy character that will mellow with age. It offers expressive aromas of blackberry, leather and spice, with layers of black fruit, herbs and olive on the palate. There’s a good minerality throughout and subtle but exotic flavors of spice on the finish.”
GAI'A - Wine Advocate	GAI'A Estate Agiorgitiko - 2008	2008	91	Dec-2019
Review “The 2008 Agiorgitiko Gai'a Estate was aged in French oak for 12-14 months. Calling it a “classic vintage,” Yiannis Paraskevopoulos described it to me as a hypothetical blend of the 2007 and 2006. When this library wine was last seen about six years back, this was showing well. It still is, but it has acquired the hoped-for harmony and complexity, as well as fleshing out a bit. In some ways, it seems more concentrated now than when I first saw it. It's still elegant, but persistent. The mid-palate shows both concentration and finesse. It seems very refined and sophisticated. There is a bit of an overlay of maturity in this relatively young wine, but at the moment, everything is prime time. The texture is sensual and velvety, adding a caressing feel. The tannins have softened. This is beautiful now, probably at peak and in a perfect place.”
Ktima Pavlidis - Wine Advocate	THEMA Red	2016	90	Oct-2019
Review “The 2016 Thema red is a 60/40 blend of Syrah and Agiorgitiko aged for 12 months in 30% new French oak. It comes in at 15.2% alcohol. The Syrah largely dominates this in flavor and aromatics early on, projecting a moderately gamey overlay and subduing the red fruits of the Agiorgitiko. Yet the Agiorgitiko is not completely intimidated. It certainly fights back. With aeration, the red fruits come out, and this becomes fresher and more expressive. This seems beautiful just now. The tannins are ripe enough so you can drink this today – about 30 minutes in a glass brings it around fairly well – but it should improve over the next couple of years, at least. It’s a nice value.”
GAI'A - JancisRobinson.com	GAI'A Agiorgitiko	2016		Oct-2019
Review “Mid cherry red. Rich, spicy bramble fruit, dark but bright. The oak spice is there but not domineering. Still very firm texture but great depth of fruit and has all the freshness that elevation endows. Very pure, very youthful. Very long.” (17++ out of 20 points)
Ktima Pavlidis - Decanter	THEMA Red	2016	86	Sep-2019
Review “Perfumed nose of stewed cherry. Dense tannins on the palate. Polished and fruit-forward.” (Bronze)
Ktima Pavlidis - Decanter	THEMA Red	2015	88	Sep-2019
Review “Dark and deep, with sweet aromas of sugar cane stalks and beetroot. Ripeness echoes on the palate.” (Bronze)
GAI'A - Decanter	GAI'A Agiorgitiko	2016	90	Sep-2019
Review “Concentrated dark fruit notes with oak spice. Fleshy and firm on the palate, with ripe fruit character.” (Silver)
GAI'A - Wine & Spirits	GAI'A Agiorgitiko	2016	90	Aug-2019
Review “Yiannis Paraskevopoulos grows this wine in the cool heights of Nemea, where the grapes ripen more slowly than on the flats of the appellation. His 2016 captures that coolness in its herbal notes and gripping tannins, a berry filled agiorgitiko in search of a well-marbled steak.”

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