“Yes, it’s a new estate. We also have a consultant, an Italian consultant, Andrea Paoletti, who also consults on Elaia in Italy. He also has his own estate. He started with the estate in 2007. They planted the vineyards, and then they waited until 2010 to build the winery. The owner and Andrea visited many different estates around the world. They went to Côtes du Rhône, and they went to Italy, to Tuscany, to see different options and also to search for different wineries and to experience different wineries. Also, our owner, he graduated from Bordeaux Management School of Wine. Therefore he also has experience around the world with wine. Well, not really winemaking, but mostly on the marketing side.

First of all, we’re 100 meters inland from the sea, and we’re about 200 to 280 meters above sea level. The good thing with this terroir is the fact that we’re not on the plain. Because Akhisar is a valley floor, the soil is very rich, whereas here we have really poor soils. We have a bit of shift, and then we have clay, but the clay percentage is not very high. [inaudible 00:16:48] has a lot of really rocky soils especially, while here you see a bit of sand as well, but when we go up to the hill, we’ll have more rocks in the soil, rocks and shift.

The good thing here is the wind actually. Here in this area we receive really good wind. Although it’s really hot here, as you can notice, we always have good wind that cools down the grapes, which gives us a really special microclimate, which eventually delays the phenolic maturity and the increase of the sugar. This, together with our poor soils, gives really good results with our grapes. We’re actually in a hot climate but can always have the phenolic ripening as well.