WELCOME TO GREEK WINES

"Dry January" is now a few days behind us, so it's time to write about wine again. And we still have something to catch up on from the old year, 2022. Because the last Greek wine of 2022 had something special in store, and that deserves a report. Fitting the occasion, we decided to pit a Greek wine against an international "icon wine" once more – namely one of the best Carignan wines on the market, the Vigno Tequilemu Vineyard Field Blend 2018 from Garage Wine Co, from the Ma

The year 2022 is drawing to a close, and since we already worked through the type of post that is so popular at this time of year, the holiday recommendations (in German), last year, this year there will be a small annual review of the best wines I had in my glass ... from Greece as well as from other countries. These obligatory annual reviews naturally have the problem that they are usually written shortly before the holidays and may therefore leave out a few highlights that

While bitter cold reigns outside, we want to take another look back at a tasting we held at the end of October - in glorious sunshine and summery temperatures. They allowed us to fire up the grill one more time and, after several great white-wine tastings during this outdoor season (with Assyrtiko (in German), Malagousia (in German), and Moschofilero (in German), for example), to hold a lovely red-wine tasting outdoors as well. Single-varietal Cabernet Sauvignon was to take c

Moschofilero from the Arcadian plateau: how it tastes, what PDO Mantinia requires and what it pairs with – plus 23 of our own tasting notes and our best-of list.

That the Ktima Kokotos 2017 from Kokotos Estate (PGI Attica) can't be a bad wine has been clear at the latest since it placed 15th in the "50 Great Greek Wines" competition, making it the best international cuvée among the wines tasted. But even before that, Greece lovers should already have had this wine on their radar. It comes, after all, from an estate with decades of tradition. Anne and Jorgos Kokotos founded the estate near Stamata, not far from Athens, as a refuge, and

The weather forecast had promised a few last warming rays of sunshine, so we wanted to seize the opportunity to drink white wine once more. For it we lined up a few bottles that had accumulated and that at first glance do not have much in common. As the title shows, however, there is a common thread after all - namely the shared idea of combining grape varieties classically considered aromatic varieties with Chardonnay. We wanted to see how bouquet and elegance actually come