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 shepherd's pie (potatoes, beef, carrots, bacon), lamb tagine with honey and dried fruits or moroccan chicken tagine.

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
  • 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 macaroonade from sète, baked salmon with tomato or chicken colombo (west indies).

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

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

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

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 slow-cooked fillet of beef, paella valenciana (without seafood) or semolina-merguez salad.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Digenakis

  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5

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

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

The word of the wine: Biodynamic (agriculture)

Organic agriculture is part of a vision of the world linking the plant and all living beings to the cosmos and basing work in the vineyard and the cellar on the cycles of the moon.

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: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Digenakis 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Biodynamic (agriculture)

Organic agriculture is part of a vision of the world linking the plant and all living beings to the cosmos and basing work in the vineyard and the cellar on the cycles of the moon.

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