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23 M03
It was an open invitation. We often stalled our visit s since daily pressure in Athens makes you sometimes to not even want to move a finger over the weekend. However on the first Saturday of March we overcame our procrastination having the weather..
06 M03
One of the ratings that we mention for our web site products is Wine Systems AG based on PAR methodology (Product, Analysis and Rating). The reason is that it is totally different than any other rating since it is based on a big list of characteristi..
01 M03
Consumer shifts to more "natural" products, i.e. organic, has understandably affected wine making. Organic wines (bio in Europe, organic in the United States) are made from organically grown grapes with limited use of additives during the winemaking ..
18 M12
Enjoying a Vidiano 2013 (a white wine grape variety widely cultivated in Crete), suddenly I realized that it was not "fresh". My wine however looked alive in the glass, having started to slowly aromatically open and having lost neither its chromatic ..
16 M11
Top English chef Rick Stein was in Monemvasia in southern Greece recently filming with the BBC for his Venice to Istanbul series.
During his trip he visited the Monemvasia Winery where he tasted their Malvasia 2010 - an updated version of an o..
01 M11
The latest Issue 227 of Robert Parker Wine Advocate was just released with some excellent ratings for selected Greek wines. Beyond the personal opinion of any wine connoisseur for any assessment of this type, it is sure that such ratings help with ..
18 M10
On Saturday the 8th we visited a winemaker and a partner of ours and to be honest we had been waiting a long time for this encounter. We visited Yiannis Papargyriou at his house in Lalioti, Corinth who gave us a tour around his cellar filled with the..
05 M09
Is it a trend, a type of uniqueness or an extreme form of cultivation? First and foremost, Biodynamic farming is a philosophy concerning world perception and its constitution, i.e. matter, nature, universe. Thus, the vine interacts practically and sp..
05 M08
For maximum enjoyment of our wine and the use of all our senses, we insist that things are much simpler compared to what we think. To try and drink a wine correctly and hence to enjoy is not difficult and that is why we explain how to do it:
Idea..