The Winery Digenakis of Crete

Winery Digenakis
The winery offers 23 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 140 of the estates of Crete.
It is located in Crete

The Winery Digenakis is one of the best wineries to follow in Crete.. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Crete to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Digenakis wines

Looking for the best Winery Digenakis wines in Crete among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Digenakis 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 Digenakis wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Digenakis

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Digenakis

How Winery Digenakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of cicadas at the chib, lamb tagine with honey and dried fruits or garlic shrimp.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Digenakis

On the nose the red wine of Winery Digenakis. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, earth or black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Digenakis

  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Digenakis.

  • Kotsifali
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Liatiko
  • Mandilaria
  • Merlot

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.

The top white wines of Winery Digenakis

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Digenakis

How Winery Digenakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of basque piperade, salmon and avocado chirashi or risotto milanese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Digenakis

On the nose the white wine of Winery Digenakis. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Digenakis

  • 2018With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.55/5

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

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Vidiano
  • Vilana
  • Chardonnay
  • Assyrtiko
  • Thrapsathiri

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top pink wines of Winery Digenakis

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Digenakis

How Winery Digenakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb such as recipes of scottish haggis, duck confit or mouse of lamb with thyme.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Digenakis

  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.53/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Digenakis.

  • Liatiko
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mandilaria

The word of the wine: Cup (size in)

Specific to the Mediterranean vineyard, this short pruning which opens the stock in the shape of a corolla offers a good resistance to violent winds but does not allow any mechanization of the vine work.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Digenakis

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 Digenakis.

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

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