Posts Tagged ‘ Roditis ’

White wine and dark chocolate

Oct 29th, 2009 | By elloinos | Category: Food and Wine

One evening a short while ago I was overcome by a sudden urge for really dark chocolate. I only like chocolate with a minimum cocoa content of 70%, the higher the better. I also prefer to eat dark chocolate cold and store it in the fridge.
A few days before, my mother-in-law had given me some [...]



Obsession with Fruit Concentration at Domaine Skouras

Sep 24th, 2009 | By elloinos | Category: Skouras

“My philosophy is to have clean wines where everything falls into place. It is all about the fruit and freshness, your saliva should get going when you taste my wines”.
These words of George Skouras capture the style of his wines perfectly. He invited me to visit him at his Domaine in Malandreni at the Peloponnese, [...]



Skouras 2008 Rosé

Apr 28th, 2009 | By elloinos | Category: Agiorgitiko, Roditis, Rosé, Skouras

 

Made from a blend of Roditis and Agiorgitiko. The colour is a light shiny piggy-pink. The nose is full of melon and raspberries, light but exotic. The palate consists of lots of fresh raspberries and ripe melon. The wine has a beautiful acidity and quite a good length, very elegant in style. The aftertaste brings [...]