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Certificate for Noema Winery Invicta v Xinomavro wine from Amyndeon, Macedonia, Greece, awarded a gold medal with 95 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2025, featuring a bottle of Invicta wine and a gold medal emblem.

Decanter’s Profile on Noema Invicta

  • The red wine Invicta 2020 by Noema Winery was awarded a Gold Medal and 95 points at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2025, the most prestigious wine competition globally.

    Xinomavro from Amyndeon continues to impress, forging its path on the international wine scene. This year, INVICTA 2020, crafted from Noema’s vineyards, received high praise from the Decanter judges for its elegance, intensity, and expressive character, securing a Gold medal and a 95/100 score.

    This distinction adds to the growing international recognition of the Invicta line. The previous vintage had already earned a place among Decanter’s Top Wines under £15, while Julia Harding MW highlighted the wine on jancisrobinson.com as “charming, highly aromatic and elegantly structured.”

    With a profile that combines sweet red fruit aromas, delicate tannins, lively acidity, and a distinct mountain freshness, INVICTA proves that Xinomavro can be expressed in a contemporary, captivating, and globally appealing style.

  • Deep red with violet hues, Invicta showcases vibrant red forest fruit on the nose and a velvety mouthfeel, enhancing notes of black fruit, black olive paste, and sweet tobacco. It brings out the fresh character of Xinomavro while achieving silky tannins and a long, elegant finish.

    The grapes are hand-harvested to preserve their integrity and then transported in refrigerated

    trucks to the winery. Once they reach a temperature below 10°C, they undergo destemming and cold maceration for four days at 10°C to extract optimal color and aromas. Fermentation lasts a maximum of two weeks at 26°C, with continuous cap wetting throughout. Malolactic fermentation occurs before the wine is transferred to oak barrels.

    Invicta matures for six months in 300-liter French oak barrels (medium grain, light toast), followed by twelve months of bottle aging before release.

Decanter Awards
  • Five bottles of different types of wine set against a white background.

    Decanter – Xinomavro: 11 Award-Winning Greek Wines to Try

    Well layered nose with mineral character, notes of green tea, bramble and hints of vanilla spice. Ripe and grainy tannins.

    Decanter.com
  • Graphic design with an orange background, featuring a circle of numbers and the text '50 GGW' inside the circle. To the right, large text reads '50 GREAT GREEK WINES.'

    50 Great Greek Wines: The List

    Poised, unextracted and ethereal character. Tannin melts into the wine, and although it is at the fresh end of the spectrum, it has lovely fruit and gentle hints of tomato leaf, olive brine and herbs.

    Greatgreekwines.com
  • A wine glass with a small amount of red wine, with a logo and text that say "OENORAMA 2025" and some abstract design. In the background, a person is holding a newspaper.

    Oenorama 2025: Whites & Rosés

    This rosé proves one again that it is one of the top wines in Greece. Watermelon and flowery on the nose and flavor, while its exuberant structure is accompanied by a sweet and sour finish.

    FNL-Guide.com
  • Seven bottles of wine and champagne upside down on a yellow background.

    Heteroclito: Wine Destination in Central Athens

    Eruption has explosive, fruity aromas, a delicious richness and accentuated acidity. Complex and balanced, it is the epitome of rosé for lovers of those that overflow with freshness.

    heteroclito.gr
  • A man and woman having a conversation outdoors by a body of water, with wine bottles and glasses on a table between them.

    Greece Is: How an American Businessman Ended Up in Amyntaio Making

    A close friendship brought David Wittig from New York to Greece. A certain audacity emboldened him to venture he did not know but whose products he loved. From this, Noema Winery was born.

    Greece-is.com
  • Man in light blue shirt tasting rosé wine in a wine tasting room.

    Wine Trails: Greece has no place in “Other Wines”

    Greek wine should have its own label "Greece", next to great powers such as California, France, Italy, and not a place on the shelf of a wine cellar or on the wine list of a premium restaurant with "other countries", according to David Wittig, the American businessman who created the Noema winery in Amyntaio, focusing on the production of wines from Xinomavro.

    Winetrails.gr