Gaía Thalassitis Submerged 2017 Brand_Powers Master Distiller Alex Davies of

Master Distiller Alex Davies of the Kyoto Distillery uses a spirit base distilled from rice and adds botanicals like yellow yuzu

turning to toasted oats and creamy chocolate

This is then blended with locally sourced water and grains

Hints of apricot

This bottling—based on the 2019 vintage with 40% reserve wines from 2018 and 2017—was disgorged with a dosage of 4

Gaía Thalassitis Submerged 2017 Brand_Powers Master Distiller Alex Davies ofEvery year since 2009, Gaia has submerged approximately 500 bottles of their Thalassitis off the east coast of Santorini. Down in the depths of the ocean and under exception conditions of stable temperatures, the wines are left to age. Sitting away from light and unaffected by oxygen. Today, at 20m depth, an underwater cellar is formed, which at any given moment hosts 4 consecutive vintages of Thalassitis. With the first attempt in 2009, only 3