Exciting Spring Days in Dusseldorf for Cyprus Wines as the Premier International Wine Exhibition at Prowein 2024 is on.
Meet Cyprus winemakers and taste the latest wine vintages up close and personal in Hall13 A40.
Full list of participating Cypriot wine producers and local Cyprus wine importers is available on the Prowein site for those still looking to get in touch – https://bit.ly/3I8vNIZ
Yiannoudi representing Cyprus among Top 40 wines – IWSC 2023
In an anticipated release of results, joining some of the most important countries and vineyards placed in the TOP 40 Wines of the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2023. Cyprus joins the ranks of the meritorious winners with its single varietal grape Yiannoudi.
The magazine Club Oenologique publishes the list of winning wines, evaluated with a gold medal, and high scores, as well as the trophy winners for the best in their category.
Representing Cyprus and earning gold medal and trophy and score at 95pts:
- 27. Yiannoudi – Amarantos 2021 from Marathasa Winery
More information: https://cluboenologique.com
IWSC Listing: Amarantos 2021
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New ‘old’ on the wine blog roll
Confinement did get some folks thinking and probably moving ahead with side projects.
Here’s another, TheBudBreak; used to be a blog, a genuine attempt in teaming up for a nature of wine expressed, with a certain taste for a Pafian Terroir. Better luck in the future – Keep making great wines
A new grape day winewednesday
Fresh new day coming on December 1st – Maratheftiko Day.
You may think…geez…how original!? Well….Grape days may no longer be top of mind, and that’s ok, granted that the concept of grape days has been around for more 40 years, one does have to take things with a certain perspective.
Yet may I ask…Chardonnay Day, who owns that?
Unlike most popular grape days with varieties spread the world across, a Maratheftiko Grape Day has still the opportunity to be claimed locally and emerge as a day for appreciation of something one does own, cherishes and values….and when it does go International…more power to the grape, the growers, the winemakers, the traders and the winelovers. Yia Mas.
Taste of India
Kudos to local Cypriot tastes exported
Triple kudos crown to them for organising and to Subhash Arora – Indian Wine Academy for reporting.
For the evening were presented by Sommelier Magan and his colleague, Gagan Sharma WSET Dip. It was a very palatable and educational evening that needs to be repeated frequently, a continual process that needs to be structured. But kudos to H.E Demetrios Theophylactou for spearheading a tasting that was long overdue and would certainly not have been easy to organise.
Also a great read – The wine tasting evening was greatly enjoyed by the guests by Radhika Puar a.k.a The Grape Vine
The weight of Xynisteri
At the heart of Cyprus grape harvest with Xynisteri
Harvest season progresses in Cyprus with the main native grapes varieties among which, the white grape Xynisteri. Independent grape growers carry the weight of farming grapes and thankfully in the last 30 years, wineries have been progressively moving in areas of vineyards thus altering the productive structure of the principal winemaking entities in Cyprus. Wineries sit now closer to the concerns and challenges of grape growers.
Cyprus harvest begins….
If it weren’t for the grapes, we wouldn’t have known
Some are quick to rush with the news, yet when continental Europe’s harvest begins, one almost automatically knows that Cyprus has already harvested its own grapes 10 to 15 days earlier.
It started with Soultanina, moves with Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Semillon….#Cyharvest17 Grapes to Press – A good harvest to all – καλό τρύγο.
Pictures above: Mallia Winery
Terroir has to be discovered
If terroir is everything, yet it’s not discovered, then does it actually even exist?
Bold it is to zip around the world to discover them – that’s the essence of the World Explorers Project Comes to Cyprus.
To bring to light emerging countries. To visit regions in the making. To meet atypical winegrowers. To taste out of the ordinary wines. This is the ambition of WINE Explorers, a unique project to take an inventory of all the wine producing countries of the world.
Cyprus being among those 250 winegrowing regions targeted, the vineyards to be surveyed and wines to be tasted starts today, as project collaborators fly in this evening into Larnaca.
Wish them good luck and let the vineyards speak, because terroir can be everything.
Cyprus wine in Beirut
A first, is a first – select Cyprus Wine Tasting in Lebanon 🇱🇧 #hapening #privatetasting
<<The hard work of the producers is reflected in the wine… most of the attendees appreciated that with diverse but all positive feedback on the wines tasted>> Toufic & Antoine ~ Tire Bouchon – terroirs et vins
Tasting took place today at the Baron gastrobar in Beirut among sommeliers and winelovers. A group tasting with the presence of Cyprus Ambassador, the consul and trade relations manager. The presented wines were hand-picked by Antoine and Toufic while on a an earlier visit to Cyprus facilitated by Stelios Afxentiou, Ministry of Commerce liason in Limassol.
Wineries that provided wines were Makkas Winery, Ezousa Winery, Zambartas Wines, Tsiakkas Winery, Lambouri Winery, Vouni Panayia winery