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Corfu Wines. Enjoy the Corfiot wine. |
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The
natural environment, completely at one with the local varieties of
grape that flourish here, has created a wide ecosystem in which the
conditions for viniculture are practically ideal. So it is hardly
surprising that the sun drenched isle of Corfu has a wine-making
tradition that goes back many years.
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most popular wine types in Corfu |
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Kakotrigis |
Quite a few grape varieties in the Ionians
have black, red, and white variants, and one of particular note is the
kakotriyis of Corfu. As with white kakotriyis wines, one should seek the
Ano Lefkimi red wines of Koulouris winery for youth and fragrance, and the
Grovino red of Vasilakis in central Corfu for age and oak and even some
finesse. Kakotriyis is joined with petrokoritho in Theotoki Roppa rosé.
All of these wines promise the tourist hedonistic enjoyment with Corfu’s
meat-and-macaroni pastitsada. An engaging, dry, lightly flavored white
wine. This wine is widely produced. |
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Petrokoritho |
A dry red (brousko) wine, a product of
Sinarades village. |
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Fraoula |
A strong heavy red wine. A
table grape which, even though it does not belong to the usual
wine-producing varieties, is in fact used to make wine in many households. |
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Moschato |
Cultivated
with particular success in the region of Strinilas on Pantocrator. It
yields a particularly fragrant white wine. |
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Martzavi |
A dry
mellow wine made from dark red grapes with heavy taste, known as black
Corfiot wine. Other varieties which complete the wine map of Corfu are the
"rozaki", the "pheidia", the "kokkinomousitsa:, the "xipleko", the "Arkadino",
the "Koryianitis", the "Afioni", the "Agoumastos", the "alepoura" and the
"Pinpiniola" - grapes which are usually mixed during production with those
mentioned above. |
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