The Winery Douloufakis is one of the world's great estates. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Aegean Sea to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Douloufakis wines in Aegean Sea among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Douloufakis 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 Douloufakis wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Douloufakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of stuffed tomatoes, potato and smoked salmon gratin or nanie's diced ham quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Douloufakis. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, pear or microbio and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or dried fruit.
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.
Vines are grown on nearly every inhabited island in the Aegean Sea.
The Minoan civilization on Crete is thought to have been the first in Europe, and wine production dates back to at least 5000B. C. , as evidenced by ancient wine Presses that have been discovered across the island.
The 5th Century BC poet Homer described the thriving wine trade in the Aegean in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and discoveries across the Mediterranean basin of ancient amphorae bearing Aegean insignia suggest that wine was one of the chief economies here in classical Greece.
The famed Malvasia-based Sweet wines were produced on many of the Aegean Islands during the period of Venetian rule in the Middle Ages, particularly on Crete, Rhodes and Paros. These wines were exported across Europe between the 14th and 17th Centuries, slating the thirst of well-to-do Parisians, Londoners and Fiorentini. Unfortunately, the period of Ottoman rule that followed saw a major decline in this trade, as well as in wine production across the Aegean Islands.
How Winery Douloufakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast beef with pepper, lamb curry or chicken breast with curry and mushrooms.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Douloufakis. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, black olive or savory and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio.
A very old grape variety grown in Greece - one of the main ones - most often at high altitude, it is said to have originated on the island of Crete. It can also be found in Italy, but is practically unknown in France. D.N.A. analyses have shown that it is related to Thrapsthiri and Vidiano.
How Winery Douloufakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef kidney, daniel's algerian couscous or white beans with tomato (italy).
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Douloufakis. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Said of a thick, rustic wine that lacks finesse.
How Winery Douloufakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of southern beef meatballs, rack of lamb in a salt crust or pork colombo.
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Douloufakis. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, tree fruit or citrus fruit.
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
How Winery Douloufakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Douloufakis. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
Expose the wine to the air before serving, to allow it to open up more, to develop its aromas and to round out its tannins.
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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.
My father worked in the wholesale supply of fruit and vegetables. He would often come home with a box of the day’s best produce, and so I became interested in what was in season. Both my parents often worked late, so cooking dinner to help take some weight off them inspired me to want to learn more. My first kitchen job at age 14 was at a Greek restaurant in Southampton, and it inspired my love for foods of the eastern Mediterranean. Today, I’m lucky to be able to obtain the best produce from ‘O ...
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
My father worked in the wholesale supply of fruit and vegetables. He would often come home with a box of the day’s best produce, and so I became interested in what was in season. Both my parents often worked late, so cooking dinner to help take some weight off them inspired me to want to learn more. My first kitchen job at age 14 was at a Greek restaurant in Southampton, and it inspired my love for foods of the eastern Mediterranean. Today, I’m lucky to be able to obtain the best produce from ‘O ...
Said of a thick, rustic wine that lacks finesse.
