The Winery Porto Carras of Chalkidiki of Macedonia

Winery Porto Carras - Malagouzia
The winery offers 37 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 5 of the estates of Macedonia.
It is located in Chalkidiki in the region of Macedonia

The Winery Porto Carras is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 37 wines for sale in of Chalkidiki to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Porto Carras wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Porto Carras

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Porto Carras

How Winery Porto Carras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, mature and hard cheese or vegetarian such as recipes of very simple spaghetti carbonara, matouille or hot tome des bauges (savoie) or zucchini quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Porto Carras

On the nose the white wine of Winery Porto Carras. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, vegetal or mango and sometimes also flavors of yeast, oil or non oak. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Porto Carras. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Porto Carras

  • 2017With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.65/5

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

  • Assyrtiko
  • Athiri
  • Malagouzia
  • Rhoditis
  • Limnio
  • Moscato

Discovering the wine region of Chalkidiki

The wine region of Chalkidiki is located in the region of Macedonia of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tsantali or the Domaine Claudia Papayianni produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Chalkidiki are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Assyrtiko, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Chalkidiki often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.

In the mouth of Chalkidiki is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 11 estates and châteaux in the of Chalkidiki, producing 67 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Chalkidiki go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food.

The top red wines of Winery Porto Carras

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Porto Carras

How Winery Porto Carras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef with balsamic sauce, lamb stew from my mum or banh mi sandwich.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Porto Carras

On the nose the red wine of Winery Porto Carras. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or spices.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Porto Carras

  • 1993With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.97/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Limnio
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Porto Carras

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Porto Carras

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

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Porto Carras

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Porto Carras. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Porto Carras.

  • Malagouzia
  • Assyrtiko
  • Limnio

The word of the wine: Passerillage

Concentration of the grape by drying out, under the influence of wind or sun, as opposed to botrytisation, which is the concentration obtained by the development of the "noble rot" for which Botrytis cinerea is responsible. The word is mainly used for sweet wines.

The top pink wines of Winery Porto Carras

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Porto Carras

How Winery Porto Carras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of marinated shrimp skewers with garlic, tajine of beef balls and merguez or julienne fillets in coconut milk.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Porto Carras

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Porto Carras. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of microbio.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Porto Carras

  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Mourvedre
  • Cinsault
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top sweet wines of Winery Porto Carras

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Porto Carras

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

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Porto Carras

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Porto Carras. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Porto Carras

  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Limnio

The word of the wine: Oenology

The science of the oenologist, which is essentially concerned with the elaboration and maturation of wines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Porto Carras

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Porto Carras and wines from the region

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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Prosecco secures trademark protection in New Zealand

The agreement formed part of a bilateral trade agreement between the European Union and the Kiwi government. It affords sparkling winemakers in Veneto trademark protection, ensuring that fizz produced in other countries cannot be labelled ‘Prosecco’ in New Zealand. This represents another symbolic victory for Prosecco producers in Italy. In December 2021, the Consorzio di Tutela Prosecco DOC celebrated a similar agreement in China. The Consorzio launched the application for GI protection in Chin ...

The word of the wine: Passerillage

Concentration of the grape by drying out, under the influence of wind or sun, as opposed to botrytisation, which is the concentration obtained by the development of the "noble rot" for which Botrytis cinerea is responsible. The word is mainly used for sweet wines.