Winery CairMaestro Athiri - Assyrtiko
White wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Cair's Maestro Athiri - Assyrtiko.
Discover the grape variety: Assyrtiko
This is a very old grape variety grown in Greece, particularly in the southern Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea, and more specifically in the Santorini archipelago. It is related to gaidouria and platani. In this country, it is quite often "associated" with other grape varieties such as aïdani, athiri, malagousia, ... . Assyrtiko can be found in Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, the United States, Mexico, South Africa, etc. Little known in France, it is nevertheless registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Maestro Athiri - Assyrtiko from Winery Cair are 2016, 0, 2017, 2015 and 2014.
Informations about the Winery Cair
The Winery Cair is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 64 wines for sale in the of Rhodes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rhodes
The wine region of Rhodes is located in the region of Dodecanese of Aegean Sea of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Alexandris Family Winery or the Domaine Kounaki produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Rhodes are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Assyrtiko, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Rhodes often reveals types of flavors of citrus, vegetal or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, tropical fruit or citrus fruit.
The wine region of Aegean Sea
The Aegean Islands – the most famous of which are Crete, Dodecanese/rhodes">Rhodes, Samos and Cyclades/santorini">Santorini – lie in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. The islands have a Long and influential winemaking history spanning thousands of years, but in the modern day are most famous for Santorini's Dry, minerally, white wines made from Assyrtico-based white wines made from Assyrtico. The Aegean Sea covers roughly 83,000 square miles (215,000 sq km) between the Southern coast of Greek Macedonia and Crete in the south. Several groups of islands make up the Aegean archipelago, including the Sporades in the North, the Dodecanese just off the coast of Turkey and the Cyclades near the Attica coast.
The word of the wine: Maturation
Transformation undergone by the grape when it is enriched with sugar and loses some of its acidity to reach maturity.
