The Winery Alcovino of Crete

Winery Alcovino - Vergitsis Chardonnay White Dry
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.5.
It is ranked in the top 776 of the estates of Crete.
It is located in Crete

The Winery Alcovino is one of the best wineries to follow in Crete.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Crete to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alcovino wines

Looking for the best Winery Alcovino wines in Crete among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alcovino wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Alcovino wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Alcovino

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alcovino

How Winery Alcovino wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of english breakfast, baked mackerel or quiche lorraine.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Alcovino.

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Crete

The wine region of Crete of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Lyrarakis or the Domaine Economou (Oikonomoy) produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Crete are Vidiano, Vilana and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Crete often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, cocoa or raisin and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, red cherry or red fruit.

We currently count 68 estates and châteaux in the of Crete, producing 394 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Crete go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alcovino

Planning a wine route in the of Crete? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Alcovino.

Discover the grape variety: Sauterne

Intraspecific crossing between Sémillon Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc carried out in 1892 by Numa Naugé. This variety has been multiplied very little and is now in the process of disappearing.

News about Winery Alcovino and wines from the region

The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Charles Lamboley

Charles Lamboley, marketing and communication director from Vignerons des Terres Secrètes, explains the differences between the appellation Mâcon-Villages and Mâcon plus a geographical denomination. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (March 2020). The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of t ...

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines

Following a recent modification of EU rules, member states are now allowed to employ resistant varieties in the production of wines with protected denominations of origin (PDO). The decision, published last week in the Official Journal of the European Union, is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. Before the ann ...

Drought and heat drive early wine harvests in Europe

Severe drought and heatwaves have provided challenges for wine producers across Europe in 2022, from maintaining vine health to concerns about – and the impact of – wildfires. Early harvests have been a feature of the vintage and reports emerged this week of records being broken at some white wine-producing estates in Bordeaux. Spain’s Caserío de Dueñas estate in DO Rueda said it began a record early harvest on 16 August this year. While drought and heat have put pressure on yields in some regio ...

The word of the wine: Chai

Place where the wine-making process takes place.

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