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The 2010 Vinsanto 4 Years Barrel Aged is a traditional blend, mostly (80%) Assyrtiko, with the rest evenly divided between the island's typical blending grapes, Aidani and Athiri. It comes in with 13% alcohol and 220 grams of residual sugar. It is easy to dismiss this, the one with "merely" four years in the barrel. Relatively speaking, as it is the youngest of the group this issue, it is very concentrated this year. It is pretty fine on its own terms, fresher and perceptibly sweeter than the oldies—the sugar has not dried out and blown off—if less nuanced, complex and concentrated than the older bottlings. Yet this has a long, tense and vibrant finish, with plenty of sugar but also fine fruit. It really doesn't seem cloying, despite my relative description. It held brilliantly for four days in the fridge, acquiring more character and showing plenty of tension at that point.

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