White Wines
"Vin de Creta" Kourtakis 200... 12% vol Variety: Vilana 100%. Colour: White with green notes. Nose: Lemon. Mouth: Acid, dry, green apples.
"Local Macedonian" Tsandalis 200... 12,5% vol Variety: Μultyvariety Colour: Clean white. Nose: Traditionally earthy, with summer notes and fruity steps That from time to time backgrounds its lemon face. Mouth: Medium dry medium tensioned, with flower smelling and summer flavor passion with good will, tries to tone its sweet character. Good tension also of after taste that moves in satisfied levels with flower spirit.
"Asyrtiko" Greek Cellars v.q.p.r.d 200... 12% vol Variety: Asyrtiko 100% v.q.p.r.d Colour: Yellow to white. Nose: Rich intesed, perfumes of summer fruits. Coop nose at starts but more lemon continuity. The fruit from the other plays long after the lemon with conhesion and proud. Mouth: Medium dry, lemon and orange tones. Very good steps between spring flowers and jasmine. At starts the introversion is again distinct but explodes later with spectacular perfumes of dry fruits and becomes more dry in the aftertaste with slow motion.
"Moshofilero" Skin Contact 200... 12% vοl Variety: Moshofilero 100% Skin contact Colour: Gold white. Nose: Vαriety of perfumes with master the one of the grapes and the roses. Medium dry not annoying rich but with clear thin and gently character. Sparkling perfumed range with strong and shrill personality. Mouth: Medium dry. For starting it work very well between lemons and levante but continuous by asserting with kind sweetness and appoints the rich character of the roses and the sugar. The champanize nucleus from the other gives a fresh and crystal note that is easily emphasized at the level of the after-taste with distinctive and duration.
"Domain Mihalakis" 200... 12% vol Variety: Chardonney 50%, Spina 30%, Malvasia 20% Colour: Crystal white with green notes Nose: Keen grapes, with cool glance to the gurgling water in a multy shape level. Perfect marriege of the ground perfumes with dry red skin fruite and lemon taste. Mouth: Dry and soft for starting, althought after all the fruity character of the wine is easy noted with the grape to be more spacific and more well dominated. The after taste from the other is presented in very satisfied levels with oval character that helps to be easy drinked.
"Samaropetra" Mr-Yiannis 200... 12,5% vol Variety: Sauvignon Blanc 60%, Roditis 40% Colour: Pure white. Nose: Balanced with chief perfumes the sherry and compote. Explosion of caramelized perfumes and sweet fruites. Medium dry necessity of perfumes that allows the wine to let very chic and reorganized without resumption. Mouth: Medium dry, leaves a sweet note for starting with philosophized perfume contrast and rich fruit body. Offensive with gentle intension crawling between white grapes and fig. Bloody generous flavoured without being boring, leaving clear stroke of vanilla and sweet and sour oranges.
"Chardonnay" Angelico Rouvalis 200... 13% vol Variety: Chardonnay 100% Colour: Yellow with gold notes. Nose: Unruly with piercing perfumes of sun dried citrus and passion for impression. Show on-the-spot of pure power of lime and oranges with politic economy at the after-nose with contininuity of the brave perfumes. Mouth: Dry and fat, plays strong in the mouth with little sweet and sour character, but ends proudly with lime and roses perfumes. Indescribable step of gentle testes with clear summer retirements the helps the after-taste not to be repeated.
"Veriki" Super Premium 200... 11,5% vol Variety : Chardonnay 50%, Robola 50% Colour : Straw yellow Nose : Prolific with citrus, those back00grounds the dry character with strong fruit perfumes. Generous perfumed activity with finesse crust of the summer fruits that imposed with the help of the yellow-green tannins. Mouth : Very crispy, mature fruits with extra dry character that plays proudly in the mouth ending with flower sub layer. "Robola" here emphasize the salty character of the variety, next to the multi-gentle "Chardonnay" that explodes with excessive disposal. The after-taste clears the fact with sparkle flavours of summer fruits.
"Bible Land" Gerovasiliou 200... 13% vol Variety: Sauvignon blanc 50%, Asyrtiko 50% Colour: Crystal white with strong green tannins Nose: Oval, extra citrus, sweet tastes like marmalade apricot. Reigned in intensity, as the sweetness is not easy distinct in the nose but prosper totally cruised in the mouth Mouth: Full and acid, the fatness hugs the controlled dryness, and in after-taste it plays between retsina and summer fruits. Great step of caramel with sea-character that shows up the gentle face of the wine but also hits the sugar mood with obvious and visible way.
"Guileless Earth" Antonopoulos 200... 13,5% vol Variety: Chardonnay 50%, Lagorthi 30%, Asproudes 20% Colour: Clean white & gold with green notes Nose: Full lemon, very fruity. Sparkling and very baby character result of his sweet perfumes and disposition to play with rich sugar flavours. Mouth: For starting offensive sweet, but acidity balance the continuity with master perfumes those of the banana and green apples. The sugar sub layer from the other continuous to exist very sharp letting the fruit to balance the situation with clear medium dry beat that release it from the repetition. Maybe nothing better right now in Greece in white wines.
Red Wines
"Vin de Crete" Kourtakis200... 12% vol Variety: Kotsifali 50%, Madilari 50%, Colour: Red pure. Nose: Medium flavoured. Mouth: Not very dry, but with a long aftertaste.
"Syrah & Kotsifali" 200... 12, 5% vol Variety: Syrah 50%, Kotsifali 50% Nose: Medium tension, with some tries that balance to the fruity character not with successful way. Perfumes of white alcohol make their appearance very faint, but resurrect with very quite groove letting a light gentle acid ness, that allows it to overcome with proud. Mouth: Medium Dry with clear barrel. Taste that keeps it away from the useless perfumes of the new age, helping it from once to be easy drinked, and from the other to let the salty character and the spirit of the Cretan region. Medium tension of the after taste that makes the wine to be counted among the "weaks", but always being among the Cretan tables as "quality house wine".
"Archanes" v.q.p.r.d 200... 12, 5% vol Variety: Kotsifali 50%, Madilari 50% Colour: Red with rich tannins Nose: Aged wet barrel, proudly matured with the character of the original Cretan doga Mouth: Full dry, with the wood and the barrel more easy noted in the after-taste. Very crispy with strong tannins and alcohol to be changed to sherry suspicious, with caramel and burned earth.
"Hadi" Domain Loupakis 200... 13% vol Variety: Grenach 100% Colour: Limpid red with crystal character. Nose: Wet barrel with dry smoked leaves, leaves a kindness Suspicious of red apples and cinnamon. Medium tensioned dryness that allows the wine not to be "to much» in the flavoured activity but being balanced and sense bled, with the alcohol volume to help for the ideal. Mouth: Traditional and village mouth, well created and balanced. Controlled dryness that helps the apple to be more active. Light sweetness in after taste but perfumes of boiled greens and earth balance the situation. Very good flavour prelacy with sweet ending that gives the wine the character of the "romantic". The aftertaste from the other do not vindicate dafnes but with pleasure and love helps the wine to be among the quality, light and easy drinked.
"Syrah" Paliani Gi 200... 12, 5% vol Variety: Syrah 100% Colour: Red not very deep, little moody. Nose: With up and down. Shy and sensitive with sudden strong perfumes like extra matured wine or olive oil. In general escapes from the brutality of the Cretan region with rich allusions to the dryness, which in taste Gnostic levell does not claims medals, but elevates it's own character without searching for mimes. Mouth: Dry to medium dry with officially tuning to the second. Maybe for power and perfume economy as they come by the aftertaste with accompanation of white Cretan cheeses.
"Saint George" Domain Lafazanis 200... 12% vol Variety: Agiorgitiko 100% Colour: Deep red. Nose: Earth perfumes with cram berries, peppers for sure with a background of youth apples. Well dominated perfumes that needs little time to be easy noted. Τhe sharp flavoured activity hugs the dry character of the wine with culture and obstinacy, something that makes the wine not to be inferior in timing and deepness. Mouth: Tasteful harmony, suspicious for coffee and red pepper. Full after taste in the mouth that gives back the peppers and the apples. Splendid reflection in the mouth and wins the impression with after-taste harmony. The dryness helps it very much to be escape from the "low qualities" and to be proud standing in every table.
"Merlot" Domain Kalligas 200... 13% vol Variety: Merlot 100% Colour: Full red to black, blue tannins Nose: Kedros, old barrel, smoke, vanilla. The perfumes balance the prolific message that want's to give with salt and maybe caramel. Witty nose with light unruly structure and polygon character. Mouth: Dry but medium tensioned. In the mouth becomes crisper and constitule for the dryness, pushing the after taste with burned woods and apples, making it more wild but little uncultivated but not in serious extent, since it drag with a gentle way perfumes that helps it not to be repeated and auto-dedicated.
"Kallikratis" 200... 12% vol Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 80%, Kotsifali 20% Colour: Red to medium crystal red, green tannins. Nose: Effervescent, medium balanced perfumes. Little defensive for starting but compels recognition with a totally silent way ending with a superb status of earth flavours giving the sense of the complicated and the especial. Mouth: Medium dry to dry medium tensioned. Perfumes of wood and burned leaf. For starting gives a medium dry character in the mouth but after becomes more attractive and constituted with the original profile of the dry quality, giving the wine the spirit of the harmonic and good spirit.
"Cabernet Sauvignon" Rouvalis 200... 13,5% vol Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 100% Colour: Deep red with pink tannins Nose: Attractive with pepper notes and cherries. Irregular and active, maybe result of premium and constituted mature with topping the sudden discipline as it goes to the mouth Mouth: Offensive power for starting, the dryness surrounds the Well-build body and offers harmony with pepper and vanilla, althought as the time pass by shows in after-taste a quite groovy and smooth flower sub layer.
"Grand Reserve" Boutaris v.q.p.r.d 200... 13% vol Variety: Xinomavro 100 %( ancient Greek variety) Colour: Deep red Nose: Perfumes of red peppers. Μaster sweet & sour notes with the balsamic vinegar to be easy smelled and the other perfumes easily come-up. Mouth: Rich with sweet and sour notes, crispy and full dry. Very erained with pepper and background of sweet & sour fruits. Tries to seem "too much" but fortunately the after taste gives a spectacular line of perfumes.
"Domain Mercury" 200... 13% vol Variety: Refosco 70%, Mavrodafni 30% Colour: Deep red. Nose: Special bouquet of flowers and wet greens. Light irregular but exploited multi-dominated and stylish. Superb flavours of wild cherries and rose berry with cork and woody background that gives the sense of the forest and whatever comes with it. Mouth: Full rich dry body, with strong and long taste. Well-domination of fantastic perfumes of berries and roses. Vivid and enthusiastic with well exercised muscles and rocky character. Full dry and splendid activity of a very long after-taste and rich crispy tannins.
"Chateau Julia" Lazaridis Estate 200 14,5% vol Variety: Merlot 100% Colour: Deep red. Nose: Effervescent, raspberries and wildberries perfumes. Little shy for starting but quite generous at the end with smoke and flowers. Forest perfumes that localize the rich flavoured activity of "merlot", and shows-up the crispy character with a offensive intoxicating way as the alc. volume shows. Mouth: Same quality as the nose with extra perfumed with winter fruits. Meets maybe with "xinomauro" variety because of the north appellation but proudly moves with power and vibration at the same time. Smoke, skin, vanilla, French barrel and cherries make perfume power exhibition party with deep flavoured character and a vεry fatty sub layer.
"Nemea" Tselepos v.q.p.r.d 200... 13,5% vol Variety: Agiorgitiko 100% Colour: Red to black. Nose: Attractive with smooth barrel and dry plums. Εxplodes in the mouth with a continuously gush of flavours that gives the wine the character of the intoxicating. Pure proceed of smoked perfumes that are not counted among the "easy" and the "medium or low quality". Mouth: Very dry with juicy tannins. The dryness here is easy noted from the first time, maybe because of the mature that is more easy found in taste than to smell, so it plays directly offensive. The after taste is also remarkable with pepper easy noted. The master pieced after-taste is also praised value with strong and gently character.
"Naousa" Foundis v.q.p.r.d 200... 13% vol Variety: Xinomavro (ancient Greek variety) 100% Colour: Very deep red. Nose: Emotionally present of the barrel with fruity background. Exploited and well-builted nose with super premium spring perfumes. Playful and majestic in champion level that gives the wine the opportunity of the tight and multi-dominated. Mouth: Full rich and active body. Smells like a French student with proud dryness and very yeasty. Totally crispy, shares with passion the multi image of the limid character like a small baby with strong and rich d.n.a or like a proud king who gives lessons of freshness and dryness.
"Nostos" Domain Manousakis 200... 14% vol Variety: Syrah 70%, Moulvedre 20%, Roussene 10% (Organic wine) Colour: Deep red with light pink tannins. Nose: Tide-up to the bone, with rich polenta and spring perfumes like the morello. Totally offensive perfumes with a very gentle and chic way result of long extra mature. Mouth: Full balanced, very very dry body, extra well dominated full exercised. "Syrah" here gives lessons of the Cretan power and gentle wildness, showing that the Cretan ground is the Syrah's favourite. Spectacular flavour and tasting stepping with the after-taste playing the role of the good-mama with extra protection and highly recommended character. Maybe nothing better right now in whole Greece.
"Cabernet" Antonopoulos 200... 14% vol Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 75%, Cabernet Franc 25% Colour: Pure deep deep red Nose: Dry fruits, pepper and vanilla background. Clear offensive with "franct" to be played as a well-trained joker, as the "sauvignon" plays the role of the powerful horse and search place to inherit his powers through funky and enjoyable flavours by keeping the perfumed activity in high levels. Mouth: Super premium, well tide with a long after taste. The alcoholic volume here push in a very strong way pepper perfumes to be more prolific from the one side and from the other side to hug the controlled dryness that "Cabernet" shows but "Merlot" disappears in the aftertaste. Splendid style and cultivation that allows the wine to be among the elite of the Greek reality.
"Cabernet Sauvignon" Katsaros 200... 13,5% vol Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 80%, Merlot 20% Colour: Red pure with full green and blue tannins. Nose: Complicated with master perfumes the wet dust and burning woods. Very close friend of the patent "serve-wait-taste" collects earth perfumes and offers them proudly in a very slow way. Mouth: Kinetic and ultra fatty, with a long after taste. Clean character of "Rapsani" appellation known well for the perfumes of salt berries and coffee. The perfumes here play very active in the taste and the after-taste as well, making them share the soft quality and the sub layer dryness the best way they can.
"Syrah Avantis" Collection 200... 14% vol Variety: Syrah 100% Colour: Deep red with pink tannins. Nose: Totally smooth, cocoa, liqueur coffee, sweet spices plums perfumes. Master nose balanced with offensive sweet perfumes and circle spirit. Swarthy compressed sub layer with basil notes and liquorice. Mouth: Enjoyable 100 %, very good balance with strong tannins. Starts tide-up with a "big nose" wine, extra philosophized, and ultra educated, but at the end it understands the heat of the character and takes the control of the after taste with an extra gourmet and delight way. Rich and fleshy mouth very progressive, with rough rustic tannins. Underground acidity that allows the wine to give light and sharpness in the mouth with the sever look of the original house wine.
"Anny's Animus" Tsolis 200... 12, 5% vol Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon 100% Colour: Pure extra deep red. Nose: Levant and rich apple perfumes. Οffensive and sure for his character on the whole enjoy ness timing. Stern nose with duration of cherries, bitter chocolate, green pepper that make allusions to the dryness with a totally cosmopolitan way. Adjoining explosion of perfumes that classify the wine to the excessive and generous wines. Mouth: Bloody fatty with strong taste & after-taste. Ermined and full attractive with master balance of dryness and alcohol with topping the tasteful harmony between chocolate and Pepper that loses in the after-taste the irregular face and wins proudly the crispy character. Continuous source of rich flavours like melted tomatoes smoked wood and salted doga. The Aftertaste from the other hugs the perfumes and prisons them with a very gentle and soft way making them repeating in very arty and decent way.