Get to know Greek wine via a duo of winemakers: Yiannis Tselepos of Tseleops Estate in Arcadia and Vassilis Papagiannakos of Papagiannakos Winery in Markopoulo. They stopped by SommChat on Twitter to field questions about soil, grapes, and the wine of 3,000 years ago.
Two great Greek winemakers at today's #SommChat, @Tseleposwines & @vpapagiannakos. Tune in for an hour, starting now.
— Markus Stolz (@elloinos) April 30, 2014
Not the socks.
@winecompass @winegrapestone @vpapagiannakos red argyle w a hint of stone #sommchat
— Yiannis Tselepos (@Tseleposwines) April 30, 2014
Grapes, please.
@SirenaDiVino @vpapagiannakos native grape of mantinia is the mochofilero, experimenting w/Kidonitsa and Gewurt #sommchat
— Yiannis Tselepos (@Tseleposwines) April 30, 2014
Where are we?
@keepercoll The vineyards are found north-east of Tripoli. Altitude exceeds the 650 metres #sommchat
— Yiannis Tselepos (@Tseleposwines) April 30, 2014
Save the grapes!
@keepercoll ALMOST LOST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR ,AN AGRONOMIST FROM WEST GREECE SAVED IT #sommchat
— Vasili Papagiannakos (@vpapagiannakos) April 30, 2014
Greek sparklingw wine? I am intrigued.
@Foundationspr @winecompass @winegrapestone @vpapagiannakos Mantina Tselepos & Amalia Brut, sparkling by moschofilero #sommchat
— Yiannis Tselepos (@Tseleposwines) April 30, 2014
Now that's some Old World wine!
@keepercoll ancestor of the smoked wine of Arcadia, where Pausanias a greek geographer mentions in his writings 3000 yrs ago #SommChat
— Yiannis Tselepos (@Tseleposwines) April 30, 2014
It's a white wine that CAN age:
@SirenaDiVino @keepercoll a ten year old malagousia and it was great !we do keep previous vintages at he moment we have 5years old #sommchat
— Vasili Papagiannakos (@vpapagiannakos) April 30, 2014
Riesling-esque:
@keepercoll the attican malagousia resembles to riesling .with citrus and jasmine caracteristics #SommChat
— Vasili Papagiannakos (@vpapagiannakos) April 30, 2014
What are your favorite Greek wines?
