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Recommended producers: 45
Wines tasted: 261
The most important grape varieties
In the south of mainland Greece , the island with about 21,000 square kilometers (Greek Morea). It is through the 1881-1893 man-made six-kilometer-long narrow channel separated completely from the land of Corinth. In the Peloponnese are the strongholds of ancient culture, such as Epidaurus, Mystras, Mycenae, Olympia and Sparta. Even in ancient times this was a thriving wine culture. On the southwestern tip of the seaport Monemvasia Who was in the Middle Ages a famous hub for sweet dessert wines, and from which the name of the grape family Malvasia derives. In the Peloponnese around a quarter of the Greek wine is produced. In large quantities are also table grape and Raisins (raisins), produces these vineyards lie mostly along the coast from the Gulf of Corinth and the Ionian Sea. The climate is very different, in the west there is abundant rainfall, long dry spells in the east. On the Peloponnese has the most appellations of controlled origin (OPAP), but there are also many wine producing country. The majority of wine production is concentrated in the north of the largest with about 4,000 hectares appellation Patras . In the mountainous center are up to 800 meters high gelegenenen appellations Nemea (2,100 hectares) and Mantinia . Known producers Constantin, Gioulis, Douros, Kokkalis, Kourtakis , Lafkiotis, Mercouri , Monemvasia, Oenoforos, Toni's dad, Spyropoulos, Skouras , Stavropoulos, Tetra myth .