Domaine Sigalas, Santorini (Greece) Assyrtiko 2018

 My WRO colleague Wayne Belding MS has already beaten me to the punch in reviewing this vintage of Sigalas Assyrtiko, but the wine is so bloody good that it deserves to be called back for an encore.  Always among the best bottlings of this great variety from the eye-poppingly beautiful island of Santorini, the 2018 is uncanny in its ability to show both richness and vivacity.  Medium-plus in body, it is very broad and deep in flavor, with stone fruit and citrus notes riding in perfect tandem with outstanding acidity and finishing with extremely persistent saline minerality.  I buy this wine virtually every year, and I always vow to save half of the bottles I purchase for enjoyment four or five years later, and always fail to find a sufficiently inaccessible spot in my cellar to enable that to actually happen.  The 2018 seems destined to this same fate, as it could hardly be more delicious now, though there’s no doubt that it holds potential for positive development.