Winery AlcovinoVergitsis Festino Dry Red
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The Vergitsis Festino Dry Red of the Winery Alcovino is in the top 0 of wines of Crete.
Details and technical informations about Winery Alcovino's Vergitsis Festino Dry Red.
Discover the grape variety: Pé de perdrix
This grape variety would be of Spanish origin, it was in this country mainly used as table grape. The Pé de perdrix has now completely disappeared. It should not be confused with the pied de perdrix, which is the red-tailed côt with black grapes.
Informations about the Winery Alcovino
The Winery Alcovino is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in the of Crete to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
