I recently spent a week in Frankfurt and Hamburg on business where I met quite a few extremely interesting people. Jan Mangold is the passionate owner of a wine shop in the heart of Frankfurt who started this year to present some of the wines he offers through entertaining videos. Dirk Wuertz is a winemaker, [...]
This is the second video in my quest to bring 100 different grape varieties from Greece to you. Fact File Monemvasia Area grown: Lakonia, Peleponnese, also Paros and Evia. History: Wine made from Monemvasia – also called Malvasia – started to emerge as the most popular wine in about 1200. It was renowned for its [...]
The northern suburbs of Athens are on fire. We are moving towards the end of the summer season and after three months of high temperatures and little rain the stage has been set for a drama. Yesterday morning the wind started picking up, and has since steadily increased. Today it blows hard with a speed [...]
I recently spent one week of vacation in Laconia, which is located in the southern Peloponnese area in Greece. I took this as an opportunity to start my quest of tasting 100 Greek wines, each from a different grape variety. While shooting the first videos, I came across two wines from the same grower, both [...]
I strolled around in Frankfurt, Germany, and went to the Kaufhof Galeria. Inside this Megastore is a wine shop, owned and operated by Kaufhof. I was pleasently surprised to be greeted by a large banner listing the countries the shop is offering wines from, as Greece was included. I went inside and was impressed: Large [...]
This is the first of a series of videos showing you 100 different grape varieties from Greece. Fact File Kydonitsa Area grown: Lakonia, Peleponnese History: Kydonitsa was widely grown in ancient and Byzantime times. From 1460 until 1828, this part of Greece was ruled by the Turks, under Ottoman rule alcohol consumption came to [...]
