The post’s about a rich, amber-colored sweet wine, flagship of the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Find out it’s recent legislation issues, distant relation to Port, ancient history, basic tasting […]
The story of this 1,5 lit magnum bottle is quite funny: My wife’s brother once promised, to open it at his sister’s marriage ceremony. Well it took seven years more, […]
Today’s wine is much respected in “underground” Greek wine scene. Due to it’s rather small production, I wasn’t lucky enough to taste it until recently. Damn … was missing much! […]
Hmm … quite strange. A wine with a sperm unit on it’s label! Wait a minute … look closer … is it a grape with a tail? Well, as i […]
Trying a wine from a warm climate, made by a grape variety, giving it’s best to a cool one, is always a challenge. Well … not in today’s case: A […]
I was very curious about this label. A review by – Grand Master “Yoda” Jedi of wine – Jancis Robinson caught my attention last winter, summing it up as : […]
This is the story from the trip we made to the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Pt II is about what we tasted right upon entering the autonomous state, […]
One of the most long living ambassadors of Greek wine, is Moschofilero. A pink skinned grape, giving light bodied, easy drinking whites, with high acidity and very aromatic. (If you […]
This is the story from the trip we made to the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. Pt I is about what we tasted before entering the autonomous state. It […]
It is common sense, Greece needs to promote it’s indigenous gifted varieties. But what if you have ordered a juicy filet and a friend comes over, with something odd … […]
Antonopoulos Vineyards, is child of Kostas Antonopoulos, a winemaker believed in potential of mountainous locations of Achaia region, Peloponissos. He run the winery untill 1994, when the business passed to […]
WineOctopus: Understanding & Reviewing Greek Wine 