The Rhous Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Crete to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Rhous Winery wines in Crete among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Rhous Winery 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 Rhous Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Rhous Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef stew, lamb marinated in white wine or red mullet fillets in saffron sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Rhous Winery. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Largest Greek island and 2nd national wine region, millennia-old Minoan heritage. Signature native Vidiano in whites, rediscovered jewel: ample, expressive with signature apricot, yellow peach, white flowers, honey, tropical fruit and a mineral touch, round and long palate. Also fresh lemony Vilana, rare Plyto and Thrapsathiri. Liatiko reds (most planted) supple with cherry, dried herbs and spice; fruity Kotsifali, tannic Mandilari.
Volcanic soils.
How Rhous Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of papillotes of simple salmon steaks, crab matoutou or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Rhous Winery. often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, tropical fruit or non oak.
Structured and aromatic whites with a golden robe, full mouthfeel and preserved acidity, with intense aromas of apricot, white peach, melon, ripe yellow fruits, white flowers, fresh almond and Mediterranean mineral notes. Good ageing potential. Star of the Cretan ampelographic renaissance (Rethymno, Heraklion), compared to Viognier for its richness. A Greek autochthon of Crete, rediscovered in the 2000s by modern winemakers.
How Rhous Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of ramen burger, lamb crumble with oregano and feta cheese or lamb tagine with prunes.
On the nose the pink wine of Rhous Winery. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Accident (oxidation or reduction) causing a loss of limpidity of the wine.
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Very expressive, lively aromatic whites with a pale golden colour, crisp palate with fresh acidity, signature aromas of citrus (grapefruit, lime), exotic fruits (passion fruit), boxwood, blackcurrant bud and mineral notes (flint). Star of Sancerre AOC, Pouilly-Fumé AOC and Pessac-Léognan AOC, defines the great whites of the Loire and Bordeaux. French white variety from Bordeaux and the Loire, exported to New Zealand, South Africa and Chile.
