Winery KaravitakisElia
Red wine
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
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
The Elia of Winery Karavitakis matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce, lamb tagine with prunes or traditional tagine (morocco).
Details and technical informations about Winery Karavitakis's Elia.
Discover the grape variety: Couderc 4401
An interspecific cross made in 1884 by Georges Couderc (1850-1928) between chasselas rose and rupestris. This direct-producing hybrid was multiplied much more in the south-west of France and in the Loire Valley, and in some cases was even used as rootstock. François Baco (1865-1947) and Vincent Malègue (1830-1915) also used it as a progenitor. - Synonymy: red bird, tank, Terray hybrid, malafosse, oazo rukh, sakhotin (for all the grape variety synonyms, click here!). - Description: small to medium-sized bunches, cylindrical-conical, winged, more or less compact, sometimes with small green berries, medium-sized stalks remaining green when ripe; small, spherical berries, beautiful bluish-black skin, very pruinose, pulpy, with coloured juice.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Elia from Winery Karavitakis are 2014, 0, 2016
Informations about the Winery Karavitakis
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.
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.
The word of the wine: Stabilization
All the treatments intended for the good conservation of wines.
