Top 100 wines of Samos
Discover the top 100 best wines of Samos of Samos as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Samos and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Samos
The wine region of Samos is located in the region of Aegean Sea of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Samos or the Domaine Samos produce mainly wines white, sweet and natural sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Samos are Cabernet-Sauvignon et Assyrtiko, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Samos often reveals types of flavors of citrus, honeycomb or lychee and sometimes also flavors of dried apricot, oil or non oak.
We currently count 15 estates and châteaux in the of Samos, producing 37 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Samos go well with generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or beef.
News from the vineyard of Samos
Vine trunks rise to meet climatic changes
While taller overall vines do exist in regions such as Galicia with their pergola training method, the roots of any vine usually top out at 37cm. It’s at this top point where the Vitis vinifera shoot is grafted in and continues to grow, giving us such grapes as Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay. This is opposed to the rootstocks which are composed of various crosses of vines such as Vitis rupestris which aren’t used for wine production but are resistant to the root louse, phylloxera. This new tal ...
Gérard Basset Foundation launches wine scholarships for victims of war
The Gérard Basset Foundation has partnered with Artémis Domaines to offer The Golden Vines Victims of Conflict Scholarships. Artémis Domaines is the owner of famed estates Château Latour (Bordeaux), Clos de Tart (Burgundy), Domaine d’Eugénie (Burgundy), Château Grillet (Rhône) and Eisele Vineyard (California). The scholarships will ‘support qualified wine industry professionals who are victims of war and geopolitical conflict’, said the group. Successful scholars will be offered six months of vi ...
Former Amazon executive to launch NFT fine wine platform
Cofounded by Xavier Garambois, the former vice-president of EU retail at Amazon, Winechain.co is set to go live by the end of this year with its first ‘wiNeFT’ offering – its term for a fine wine linked to a non-fungible token (NFT). There has been a growing amount of innovation around NFTs in the wine world, from limited-edition winery offers to the ways in which blockchain technology could provide a digital guarantee of ownership history. Winechain said its goal is ‘to build dy ...