Xinomavro/Negoska, Titos Red, Goumenissa, Mikro Ktima Titos 2022
Silver, Decanter World Wine Awards 2024; Silver, Decanter World Wine Awards 2025
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Why this wine
Goumenissa is one of Greece's smallest appellations, and Titos has been its most serious address since Ktima Biblia Chora took the estate on in 2018. Negoska rounds off Xinomavro's edges, and a year in large French oak frames the fruit rather than covering it. A way into an appellation that almost never appears on a UK list.
At a glance
- Grape
- Xinomavro, Negoska
- Region
- Macedonia, Greece
- Alcohol
- 13.50%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- High
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Short (3-5 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Red Meat, Poultry & Pork, Cheese
How it tastes
Ripe summer berries and cherry, with herbal and floral notes of rosemary and jasmine behind them. Medium-bodied and dry, with high acidity, smooth medium tannins and a fresh finish that lengthens the fruit. Xinomavro and Negoska.
The producer
Mikro Ktima Titos, the 'small estate of Titos', lies among ancient oaks at the foot of the Paiko range near Goumenissa in Central Macedonia; Titos Eftychidis founded it in 1972, planting four hectares along the banks of the River Sirios to Xinomavro, Negoska and Limnio alongside Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, and after his death Angeliki Eftychidi entrusted the vineyard to his friend Vangelis Gerovassiliou, which led to its acquisition by Ktima Biblia Chora in 2018 under Gerovassiliou and Vassilis Tsaktsarlis. Four and a half hectares of Xinomavro and Negoska surround the winery, with 15.5 more at Gerakonas inside the PDO and seven in the neighbouring villages of Filiria and Pentalofos, on clay soils rich in granite and limestone; work is largely manual, harvest usually begins at the end of September, and the River Sirios tempers the continental summer while the cold north-westerly Vardar clears winter moisture. The two varieties were co-macerated and co-fermented with selected yeasts and gently stirred until fermentation finished, then given malolactic conversion and a year in large French oak barrels. The 2022 season opened with heavy November and December rain that built soil and carbon reserves, a mild spring with enough rain for steady vegetative growth, and a dry summer that left the vines somewhat stressed, though the harvest ran smoothly with healthy, fully ripe fruit.
Food and drinking
Serve at 16–18°C. Good with lamb kleftiko, grilled pork chops, moussaka, or a board of aged sheep's cheeses. Drinking well now and will keep for five to ten years; an hour in a decanter helps it open. Sealed with a DIAM closure. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.