The Winery Kostantakis of Aegean Sea

Winery Kostantakis - Retsina
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 268 of the estates of Aegean Sea.
It is located in Aegean Sea

The Winery Kostantakis is one of the best wineries to follow in Aegean Sea.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Aegean Sea to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Kostantakis wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Kostantakis

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Kostantakis

How Winery Kostantakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Kostantakis.

  • Savatiano
  • Rhoditis

Discovering the wine region of Aegean Sea

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.

The top white wines of Winery Kostantakis

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Kostantakis

How Winery Kostantakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Kostantakis

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Kostantakis

  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Assyrtiko
  • Savatiano
  • Monemvassia

Discover the grape variety: Savatiano

This is one of the most widely cultivated grape varieties in Greece, particularly in the regions of Attica, Euboea and Boeotia, and is virtually unknown in France. It is believed to be a cross between roditis and karystino, two varieties also of Greek origin.

The top red wines of Winery Kostantakis

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Kostantakis

How Winery Kostantakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of currywurst or yoghurt cake.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Kostantakis

On the nose the red wine of Winery Kostantakis. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Kostantakis

  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Aidani
  • Mandilaria

The word of the wine: Dry

Champagne with between 17 and 35 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).

The top pink wines of Winery Kostantakis

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Kostantakis

How Winery Kostantakis wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of king's cake with frangipane.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Kostantakis

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Kostantakis. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Kostantakis

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Mandilaria
  • Mavrotragano
  • Moscato
  • Rhoditis

Discover the grape variety: Aidani

This grape variety has been cultivated in Greece for a very long time - most often at high altitudes - more specifically in the Cyclades islands, the island of Rhodes, Crete, etc. and is practically unknown in other wine-producing countries, including France. We can meet the black aidani or mavro, very rare, it has however no link with the white or aspro.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Kostantakis

Planning a wine route in the of Aegean Sea? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Kostantakis.

Discover the grape variety: Assyrtiko

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.

News about Winery Kostantakis and wines from the region

A perfect pairing: Flatbread and cod roe emulsion

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 ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

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 ...

A perfect pairing: Flatbread and cod roe emulsion

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 word of the wine: Dry

Champagne with between 17 and 35 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).