Structure
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: ripe fruit, honey, warm chocolate
Palate: fleshy fruit, round tannin
Intense purple in the glass, with aromas of ripe fruit touched by honey and warm chocolate, a vigorous body that is fleshy with rounded tannins, bottled unfiltered and unstabilised.
What it pairs with
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Fine international cuisine
Gofas recommends noble dishes of international cooking for this bottling. -
Roast beef fillet
The firm rounded tannins and 24 months in oak suit a prime roast cut. -
Aged hard cheese
The honey and chocolate register holds against a long-matured cheese.
Facts
- Producer
- Gofas Winery · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Agiorgitiko (30%)
- Classification
- PGI Peloponnese
- Oak
- Twenty-four months in 225 litre French oak barrels and six months in bottle, bottled without cold stabilisation or filtration
- ABV
- 14.5%
- Price
- €14-17 at retail
Frequently asked about Romeo and Juliet
What does Romeo and Juliet taste like?
Gofas describes an intense purple colour with aromas of ripe fruits with tones of honey and warm chocolate, and a vigorous body that is fleshy with rounded tannins.
What grapes are in Romeo and Juliet?
It is 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 30 percent Agiorgitiko, from an estate plot at Simarkou near Koutsi on clay-sandy soil at 330 metres.
How is Romeo and Juliet made?
Red vinification with extended 20-day extraction at controlled temperature is followed by 24 months in 225 litre French oak barrels and six months in bottle. It is bottled without cold stabilisation or filtration.
How should Romeo and Juliet be served?
Gofas says to decant it into an open carafe and serve at 18 degrees Celsius.