Top 100 wines of Kissamos
Discover the top 100 best wines of Kissamos of Chania as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Kissamos and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Kissamos
The wine region of Kissamos is located in the region of Chania of Crete of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pnevmatikakis or the Domaine Pnevmatikakis produce mainly wines pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Kissamos are Assyrtiko, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Kissamos often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
We currently count 1 estates and châteaux in the of Kissamos, producing 4 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Kissamos go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, mature and hard cheese or vegetarian.
News from the vineyard of Kissamos
The Macallan launches 81-year-old whisky
The spirit was filled into a single ex-Sherry cask at the Speyside distillery in 1940, shortly before The Second World War forced The Macallan to close for the first time in its history. Bottled at 41.6% abv, only 288 decanters are available worldwide, featuring eye-catching packaging: a mouth-blown glass decanter sitting on a bronze sculpture of three hands, created by Scottish artist Saskia Robinson. The hands represent the distillery workers of 1940 who made the whisky; former Macallan chairm ...
Errazuriz wine photographer of the year revealed
Jon Wyand has been crowned Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year after impressing the judges with his beautiful shot of a Burgundian vineyard worker gathering prunings. The photograph was taken on a crisp winter’s day at Montagne de Corton Hill in the Côte de Beaune. ‘The winning image evokes with stark beauty the reality of wine growing – you are always at the mercy of nature,’ said wine writer Joanna Simon, one of the judges. ‘But there’s an extra element here: is he scruti ...
Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’
Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...