The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2016
Rating: 88+/100
Date: 30/04/2019
The 2016 Ktima Kir-Yianni Yianakohori Hills is a 50/30 blend of Xinomavro and Merlot with 20% Syrah, all aged for 14 months in 30% new oak (60% French, 40% American). It comes in at 13.9% alcohol. Powerful and a bit too funky in its youth, this shows a lot of aromatic nuance (and on the palate as well) from its gamey Syrah. It’s gorgeously constructed, though, with fine precision, a long finish, velvety texture and a real backbone. Maybe the aromatics will fold into this wine with a little more age—or drink this with an appropriate food pairing. All that said, you’ll be hard pressed to find a wine in this issue with a more serious feel at this bargain-level price point. This has the structure to age pretty well, and at least average depth. It actually could use a little time. It took two hours to open up. So, the question then becomes how tolerant you are of the aromatics, assuming it stays just this way. Do you want Northern Rhône or Northern Greece? If it comes together and shows better balance at some point in the near future, it might well be entitled to an uptick in score. In the meanwhile, it is still a nice deal.
Tasted 100% Blind
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2012
Rating: 90/100
Date: 08/03/2016
Andreas Larsson – Youthful colour here with a high intensity, quite dense core, ruby with a purple hue. Pure nose with a good intensity. There are oral hints here with violet, rose petal, with a dark berry fruit, plum, cherry cassis. A gentle hint of oak. Nice palate here. Very high concentration, high extract, but it is not extracted, if you know what I mean. It is natural, I would say, very tannic style. Already I would say, quite drinkable particularly with food. With a huge piece of meat or anything in that direction. It is marked by a very nice acidity. Attractive dark berry fruit with a mild spiciness. Fresh acidity as well. Truly long nish. It is still in its infancy. It is truly a style that should deserve a long ageing, but I kind of like it already.
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2011
Rating: 90/100
Wine Align - John Szabo MS
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2011
Date: 01/05/2015
Confident Wines from Original Vines: Reasons to Drink Greek
Ktima Kir-Yianni 2011 is assertive blend of 60% xinomavro and 40% merlot. It’s redolent of freshly turned earth, savoury herbs, and dusty red fruit, in other words, very much like a modern Tuscan sangiovese blend. But the texture is firm and puckering – there’s definitely no pandering to commercial soft and cuddly tastes here. An authentic and tight, chewy and rustic red wine in the old world style.
Wine & Spirits
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2010
Rating: 88/100
Date: 01/08/2015
A blend of 60 percent merlot and 40 percent xinomavro from estate parcels, this is a supple, soft red with earthy baked cherry flavours and tomato leaf notes.
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2010
Rating: 86/100
Sunday Business Post - Tomas Clancy
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2010
Rating: 91/100
Hemispheres Magazine
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2010
Date: 19/12/2014
Greece is the Word
If you like Nebbiolo, try Xinomavro. Tasting notes: “This grape from Macedonia is basically nebbiolo in disguise” says Madrigale. “It has all the violet, tar and tart red fruit notes that you get in a Barolo, as well as the dry, chalky tannins.”
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2009
Rating: 90/100
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2009
Rating: 90/100
Cyprus Wine Pages
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2008
Rating: 85/100
Το Γιανακοχώρι δεν είναι το ακριβότερο κόκκινο του Κτήματος Κυρ-Γιάννη. Πάνω από αυτό υπάρχουν (τιμολογιακά) οι Δυο Ελιές και ο Διάπορος. Προσωπικά, εντούτοις, προτιμώ το Γιανακοχώρι, αλλά και το κατά τι φθηνότερο Ράμνιστα, το οποίο θα παρουσιάσω προσεχώς. Το Γιανακοχώρι είναι ένα κόκκινο που αυτή τη στιγμή είναι νέο και κάπως σκληρούτσικο, λόγω των αισθητών και κομματάκι στεγνών τανινών του. Έχει όμως δύο στοιχεία που πάντα με γοήτευαν σ’ ένα κρασί. Πρώτον, δυνατότητες παλαίωσης (μέχρι το 2020) και, δεύτερο, συνεχή εξέλιξη στο ποτήρι, πράγμα που δεικνύει και τον πλούτο του. Μόνο για αυτούς τους λόγους θα κρατούσα ένα κιβωτιάκι στην κάβα μου. Θέλει κόκκινα κρέατα, κυνήγι ή σκληρά τυριά και αλλαντικά.
Alpha Wine Guide 2011
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2007
Rating: 94/100
Date: 31/12/2010
Βαθύ ερυθρό. Απολαυστικά πληθωρικό, σύνθετο και ευγενικό άρωμα φράουλας, δαμάσκηνου και κερασιού, με κόκκους πράσινου και μαύρου πιπεριού, σε φόντο νυχτολούλουδου. Νότες κόκκων καφέ και γλυκόριζας. Πλούσιο, με εξαιρετική δομή και δυνατές, κομψές τανίνες, που κάνουν αισθητή την παρουσία τους χωρίς να ενοχλούν. Πολύ καλή επίγευση.
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2005
Rating: 87/100
Alpha Wine Guide
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2005
Rating: 91/100
Μεσαίας έντασης ερυθρό. Πληθωρικό, σύνθετο και ταυτόχρονα ευγενικό άρωμα φράουλας και κερασιού, με κόκκους πράσινου και μαύρου πιπεριού, σε φόντο ντομάτας και βανιλάτου σοκολατούχου γάλακτος. Πλούσιο, με εξαίρετη δομή και δυνατές τανίνες, που κάνουν ευχάριστα αισθητή την παρουσία τους, χωρίς καθόλου να προεξέχουν. Πολύ καλή επίγευση
The Wine Advocate
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2002
Rating: 89/100
Xinomavro has the upper hand right now in this tough, tannic blend with merlot. From a damp, difficult vintage, it needs a few years to show its best. Then serve it with duck confit: The meat’s salty richness will absorb the tannin, allowing the juicy black plum flavors to the foreground.
Wine Report
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2001
Rating: 89/100
Tasters saw a garnet wine with a touch of brown and aromas of spice, smoke, blackberry and sun-dried tomato. It had flavors of olives, sun-dried tomato and earth notes. This light to medium-bodied wine had a lingering finish with solid acidity and a touch of sour cherry.
Vine
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2001
Rating: 16.5/20
Decanter
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2000
Modern-style Naoussa (Xinomavro and Merlot). Generous cherry and tomato nose, vibrant, sweet. Satin-textured plum/strawberry palate, approachable, for drinking now.
Ευ Ζην
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 2000
Rating: 82,8/100
Χρώμα κόκκινο, όχι ιδιαίτερα έντονο. Στη μύτη αρώματα δέρματος ντύνουν πανέμορφα την ώριμη φράουλα και την ώριμη, γλυκιά ντοματούλα, σήμα κατατεθέν του Ξινόμαυρου. Άφθονο δυναμικό, αρκετός πλούτος, αλλά με μάλλον στεγνές ταννίνες στο στόμα
Wine & Spirits
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 1998
Rating: 91/100
Decanter buying guide
Wine: The Fallen Oak
Vintage: 1997
Date: 05/03/2000
Best Old World Wine
From Boutari’s recently planted estate on the slopes of Mount Vermion in the AC Naoussa zone in northwest Greece. Merlot is blended with Xinomavro, the indigenous grape, to produce a wine whose deep carmine colour leads to a nose of raspberry, blackcurrants and cinnamon, a ripe softness on the palate with attractive oak tannins. As the wines age, this will get better and better and no doubt cost more than its current price
