Mythos - 2020
Tomislav Marković
- Region
- Germany » Baden » Landwein Oberrhein
- Type
- white still, dry
- Producer
- Tomislav Marković
- Vintage
- 2020
- Grapes
- Chardonnay
- Alcohol
- 12
- Volume
- 750 mL
- Cellar
- not available
20 years old vines. 30 days classic open top mesh fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Basked pressed. Aged for 10 month in new French oak. Racking into an used red pièce to add extraordinary flavours. 275 bottles produced.
Ratings
It's a story about a journey in the apple orchard. You gather a bunch of fruits, cut them and extract all the seeds. Since no sane person eats the fruit itself, you throw it away and feast upon the precious seeds. Hehe. This is what Mythos is all about. Oily, mineral, and apple-seedy. Not complex, flat, yet somehow confident and pretentious. Obviously overpriced.
Tomislav Marković
It is little known about Tomislav Marković, but his story seems to follow a familiar pattern. At some point, he decided to leave banking behind and switch to wine-making. A decision that came to life thanks to his occasional visits to his homeland Croatia. His uncle introduced Tomislav to the world of wine. And he became curious.
Yet before starting a winery, Tomislav wanted to get some knowledge and experience from other winemakers. In 2011, he left his banking job to study viticulture and oenology at Weincampus Neustadt. After some practice at Viera de Sousa in the Douro (Portugal) and Domaine de Montille in Volnay (Burgundy, France), he started to work as a consultant for organic viticulture and oenology.
In 2016, Tomislav became a négocian winemaker, a model he borrowed from Burgundy and Douro. It means that instead of farming vines, he was buying grapes from others to make his own wine. Risky and advantageous because it's challenging to get access to suitable and high-quality vineyards for a newcomer. Yet, he found a total of 0.5ha in Rheinhessen.
Later on, in 2019, Tomislav finally planted his own 0.5ha vineyard in Baden with Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire. In 2021, he even planted Touriga Nacional vines, presumably planted for the first time in Germany.