The Growing Environment and Grape Growing - Grape varieties - White grapes
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(ex) White wines are 70% of the Greece wine production; name some white grape varieties
- Savatiano; most planted
- Roditis
- Assyrtiko; best known most prized
- Moschofilero
- Malagousia
Where is Savatiano cultivated, what are key characteristics and the style of wine produced?
- The workhorse
- Most planted white in Central Greece
- Mainly used for Retsina
- Now also very good dry quality from low yielding, dry-farmed bush vines
- Style: subtle aromas of citrus, pear and stone fruit with a nutty character when ageing
Where is Roditis cultivated, what are key characteristics and the style of wine produced?
- 2nd most planted white variety of Greece, throughout the country/everywhere
- Pink skinned (moschofilero too)
- High yields, fat wines
- Inexpensive wine and for blending, improving in Retsina
- Changing, better quality from old vines i.e. Peloponnese, and at altitude
- Style: high acidity, ripe fruit and melon
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Where is Assyrtiko cultivated, what are key characteristics and the style of wine produced?
- White grape variety, Greece's best know and most prized indigenous variety
- Origin from Santorini, but now widely planted
- low yields
- High acidity also in hot conditions
- Well balanced; high acidity, high alcohol and wines can age
- Also Luscious sweet wines; vinsanto from Santorini
- Dry wines: citrus, stone and tropical fruit with strong smoky and flint characteristics
- Part of the blend in oak for fuller body and complexity
Where is Moschofilero cultivated, what are key characteristics and the style of wine produced?
- Quality potential, mainly in Mantinia in the Peloponnese
- White variety from Greece
- Aromatic: citrus, flowers 'rose petals' spices (like muscat)
- High acidity, low alcohol
- Pink skinned
- Good quality
Where is Malagousia cultivated, what are key characteristics and the style of wine produced?
- White variety of Greece, almost disappeared, was rare
- all over Greece again
- Top quality varietal
- medium acidity, medium body, complex and intense aromas; stone fruit and flowers
- Best on cooler sites: herbal notes
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