Winery KaravitakisElia

Red wine of Crete of Greece

4.3

(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)

Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.

The Elia of Winery Karavitakis is a red wine from the region of Crete.
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
The Elia of the Winery Karavitakis is in the top 90 of wines of Crete.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Oak

Spices

On the nose the Elia of Winery Karavitakis in the region of Crete often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Elia

Pairings that work perfectly with Elia

Original food and wine pairings with Elia

Spicy food

The Elia of Winery Karavitakis matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, uzbek pilaf or baked sea bream.

Details and technical informations about Winery Karavitakis's Elia.

Winery

Winery Karavitakis

Grape varieties

Region/Great wine region

Crete

Country

Greece

Style of wine

Red

Allergens

Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to 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-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Last vintages of this wine

Elia - 2016

In the top 90 of of Crete wines

Average rating: 4.2

Elia - 2014

In the top 90 of of Crete wines

Average rating: 4.5

The best vintages of Elia from Winery Karavitakis are 2014, 2016

Informations about the Winery Karavitakis

The winery offers 42 different wines.

Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.

It is in the top 10 of the best estates in the region

It is located in Crete

The Winery Karavitakis is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 43 wines for sale in the of Crete to come and discover on site or to buy online.

In the top 900 of of Greece wines

In the top 95 of of Crete wines

In the top 100000 of red wines

In the top 200000 wines of the world

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.

News related to this wine

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

The word of the wine: Stirring

In the traditional method, the operation aims to bring the deposits against the cork by the movement of the bottles placed on desks. The stirring can be manual or mechanical (using gyropalettes).