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Peloponnese

March 3, 2015
La Tour Melas Palies Rizes

Survivor wisdom grapes

Wine made from ungrafted vines is rare Examples include Charles Jogues Cabernet franc in Chinon Chateau Barejat in Madiran topped by the ethereal Domaine Gramenon in […]
July 29, 2014
Ktima Panagiotopoulou Malagousia Bio

A jewel

With Greeces entry in 1981 to the common European Market structural funds became available Until then Greek wine was carved up by four behemoths In this […]
March 19, 2014
Mitravelas Estate Nema

A wine with soul

A great memory booster for ones armchair travels wine has that magiccarpetride capability to transpose you to the top of a hill or to a panorama […]
December 6, 2013
Agiorgitiko Tetramythos

What struck me most was how it reminded me at what Nemea looked and tasted like in the mid-to late 1990’s

In this part of the world a desk stacked with copies of the Australian Wine Journal is not a common sight But then neither is oenologist […]
October 20, 2013
Léfkes Moschofilero Mitravelas Estate

He was the town’s most respected bulk merchant

This Nemeabased address dates prior to 1913 Some 15 years ago I met the late Andreas Mitravelas He was the towns most respected bulk merchant This […]
July 4, 2012
Kidonitsa  Batistas

Could this rarity turn out to be the Greek vineyard’s ‘Little Prince’?

One of my earliest recollections in tasting grapes was a type of Muscat It was cut from a pergola between an olive grove and a beach […]
May 17, 2012
Taos Parparoussis

Are we witnessing the birth of a terroir?

Many of my friends enjoy wine but know little about it Politely they listen to the capsule introduction of what we are about to drink and […]
April 9, 2012
Anax Chardonnay  Antonopoulos Vineyards

The new benchmark?

If I have learned anything from wine is that it usually has the last word This is very much such a story All apostles preaching ABC […]
March 25, 2012
Parparoussis Apostagma Oinou Paleothen 40% ABV

Now why on earth such a uniquely identifiable handcrafted spirit is not better known is beyond me

Thanassis Parparoussis is an emblematic figure of the boutique winery movement that burst on the scene in the late 1980s His generation helped change the face […]
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