Oinotria Gi 2022
Cabernet Sauvignon – Agiorgitiko (Organic)
I believe it’s unnecessary to say much about the Costa Lazaridi family. A family whose name has been synonymous with quality wine in the country for the past 20+ years. With facilities and vineyards in both Drama and Attica (Kapandriti), the business primarily deals with international varieties, but also with indigenous ones from our country.
The premium wine series “OINOTRIA GI” also includes a blend consisting of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Agiorgitiko (from a vineyard next to Marathon Lake).
The 2022 vintage features a dense, impenetrable opaque color with blue-purple iridescence forming at the rim of the glass. Youthful fruits of black cherries, blackberries, and blueberries, embraced by spices, mild oak tones, and chocolate on the finish, characterize it both on the nose and palate. The quite lively acidity, youthful tannins, and medium-bodied structure complete its profile.
A wine with great potential for evolution and aging, and the prerequisites to accompany the upcoming Easter table.
For those who haven’t visited the welcoming wineries – facilities (Kapandriti has a museum and event space), consider it for a pleasant outing – excursion and tour to be initiated into the world of wine, distillation, and vinegar production, in which the Costa Lazaridi estate is also active.
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Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
Fantasy in F-sharp minor (Wq67 – H 300)
Oinotria Gi is a wine that can be enjoyed now, but also one that is suitable for aging. How do you taste such a wine? It’s like projecting with your imagination, and by drinking it now, mentally savoring the taste you estimate it will have in the future. It requires an imagination that is neither uncontrolled nor particularly creative, but certainly strong, an ability to correctly predict what will take time to become a reality. To turn a draft into a masterpiece.
In his Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (Berlin 1753; English translation: William J. Mitchell 1949), the composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (C.P.E. Bach, 1714-1788 – son of Johann Sebastian) dedicates significant pages in the chapters Performance and Free Fantasy to fantasy as a musical genre, which is improvisationally built by the performer upon predetermined chords. It is an exercise in creativity, yet it presupposes a plan.
As products of improvisation, fantasias, like so many other works, have been lost, leaving only descriptions of admiration from those who heard them – such as that of the English music traveler Charles Burney from his visit to the composer and author himself in Hamburg in the early 1770s. Nevertheless, there are also some written fantasias, which, with their free and evocative structure, capture what could approximate the impression of such an improvisational performance. Among them is the famous Fantasy in F-sharp minor (Wq67 – H 300) by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, a work written in the penultimate year of his life, 1787.
Precision and sensitivity are harmoniously combined in the excellent performance by Anna Tsybuleva on a modern piano at Wigmore Hall in 2017, a concert recording that captures the intensity of a live performance, and something of the acoustics of the famous London hall.
But I can imagine that when the 2022 bottle is at its ideal moment, a piano will be set up at the estate next to Marathon Lake.
Anna Tsybuleva plays Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach Fantasy in F-sharp minor H. 300
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