Greece - Principal Wine Regions - Peloponnese
3 important questions on Greece - Principal Wine Regions - Peloponnese
What is the most important wine region of Greece? Describe it. What are the two main PDOs?
- Peloponnese 30% of vineyard area total, peninsula in the south of Greece
- Grape growing important for economy
- Mountains
- Temperatures moderated by altitude
- Poor rocky soils
- Devoted to white wines
- Roditis most important grape
- PDO Nemea and Mantinia
- 3rd would be PDO Patras
Explain and describe PDO Nemea
- Most important for Peloponnese
- Only red wines "blood of hercules".
- 100% Agiorgitiko; dry, semi sweet and sweet
- New style: "nouveau" semi-carbonic maceration for fruit and low tannins
- Wide style of wines; barriques increasingly used
- Mediterranean climate
- More approachable wines than Naoussa
Explain and describe PDO Mantinia
- A plateau in the south of Peloponnese
- One of the coolest grape-growing areas in Greece
- Also long growing seasons
- PDO for white wines only; Moschofilero 85%
- High acidity, low alcohol mainly in rvs
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