Mercouri Estate

Tasting Notes Mercouri Estate

Apr 8th, 2009 | By elloinos | Category: Kazakos Drink Bank, Mercouri Estate, Vassilis Papadopoulos

Vassilis Papadopoulos is a sommelier and the co-owner of Kazakos Drink Bank, my favorite wine merchant in Athens. He gave me two bottles of wine to try. Both wines are from the Mercouri Estate. Vassilis tasted some experimental wines while visiting the estate and decided on the spot to purchase the whole production of 500 [...]

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Greek wines – a busy start of the new year

Feb 18th, 2009 | By elloinos | Category: Alpha Estate, Arvantidi, Christos Kokkalis, Driopi, Gerovassiliou, Kokkalis, Mercouri Estate, Palivou, Parparoussis, Stavropoulos, Trilogia, Tselepos

My first trip of the year (22.01.) took me to Nemea where I spent a couple of hours with the very generous Mr. George Palivos of the Palivou Estate. We tasted the full range of wines, starting with the basic Anemos white (Roditis), Anemos red (Agiorgitiko), and Vissino rose (Agiorgitiko/Syrah). Next came the Estate wines: [...]

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