Arcadia ‘333’ Late Harvest Botrytis

The sweetest of the Arcadia wines 333 Late Harvest Botrytis is the only botrytis wine made in Turkey! Notes of bruised apple, cinnamon, and sweet candied fruits. Good fruit intensity and flavour.

Produced with Sauvignon Blanc grapes infected with the Botrytis Cinarea “Noble rot” and harvested very late in the season for maximum sugar maturity. Skim contact in 19 hectolitres tanks than the whole cluster pressing. Fermented at 13 – 15 degrees. The wine underwent gentle cross-flow filtration. Natural sedimentation. No fining agent or enzymes were used.

Arcadia Winery

• Location: Located in the countryside of Kırklareli, in the valley stretching below Strandja Mountains, in Northern Thrace, near Bulgaria in northwest Turkey. 

• History & Ownership: Founded by father and daughter, Özcan Arca and Zeynep Arca in 2004. 

• Production: They produce a range of white, rosé, and red wines, in small quantities, with emphasis on nuance and vitality. They cultivate nine different kinds of grapes in a 350-decare vineyard. 

• Sustainability: They specialize in sustainable tourism and lifestyle alternatives. 

• Wines: They produce unmanipulated terroir wines, including white, rosé, red, sparkling, and noble rot sweet wines, all estate-bottled. 

• Harvest: The grapes are harvested with scissors, not a knife, to preserve their flavor and prevent juice flow.  

• Name Origin: The name comes from the local history (Arcadiapolis, the old name of Lüleburgaz) and mythological meaning (a garden of unique beauty resembling paradise on earth).

• Grapes: They grow Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris, Sangiovese, Pinot Gris, Öküzgözü, and Narince. 

• Other Activities: They are developing a boutique hotel and restaurant for visiting wine lovers.