Winery ManousakisNostos Pink
Pink wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
The Nostos Pink of the Winery Manousakis is in the top 30 of wines of Crete.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Nostos Pink of Winery Manousakis in the region of Crete often reveals types of flavors of cherry, grapefruit or citrus and sometimes also flavors of minerality, strawberries or pomegranate.
Food and wine pairings with Nostos Pink
Pairings that work perfectly with Nostos Pink
Original food and wine pairings with Nostos Pink
The Nostos Pink of Winery Manousakis matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of baked marrow bones, milk-fed lamb sautéed with saffron and lemon or turkey escalope with curry.
Details and technical informations about Winery Manousakis's Nostos Pink.
Discover the grape variety: Calabre blanc
This is a very old grape variety, most certainly of Italian origin, not to be confused with other grape varieties with the name or synonym Calabria. Writings sometimes mention a white calabre resulting from an intraspecific crossing between bicane and muscat à petits grains blancs, although we are not sure that it is the same variety described here. You will note below that the leaf is very similar to that of the muscat à petits grains, to be continued. It can still be found in Italy, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine, ... in France it is almost unknown.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Nostos Pink from Winery Manousakis are 2017, 2018, 2016, 2015 and 2012.
Informations about the Winery Manousakis
The Winery Manousakis is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 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: Alcohol content
The alcohol content of wine expressed as a percentage of the volume of alcohol contained in the wine.
