RODINOS - Semi-Sweet Rose Wine

RodOenos has an intense aromatic character that releases the delightful scent of roses, a bright rose colour, an elegant nose, soft flavour, and charming crispness. As its name implies, it is a perfect rose (rodi) wine (oenos).

Tasting Notes

A prize-winning varietal semi-sweet wine made Black Muscat of Tyrnavos . It has an intense aromatic character that releases the delightful scent of roses, a bright rose colour, an elegant nose, soft flavour and charming crispness, all of which have contributed to it being awarded the Best Rose Wine award at the Interwine competition, the largest international wine and spirits exhibition of South China

Food Pairing: A pleasant accompaniment to cheese & foie gras platters, Chinese cuisine and desserts.

Vinification: The grapes are carefully gathered and handled. Cold maceration for 6 hours. Alcoholic fermentation with selected yeasts at low temperatures.

Vol: 11.5%

Varieties: 100% Black Muscat of Tyrnavos

Type: Varietal semi-sweet red wine

Vineyards: From the wine zone of Tyrnavos

Period of vine harvest: Early September

Tyrnavos

At the edge of the plain, at the foot of Mount Olympus, lies Tyrnavos with its endless vineyards that hide within them priceless treasures. The vineyard is located at an altitude of 70-250 meters and the soil is mainly sandy clay with limestone rocks. The climate of the region has relatively low winter temperatures with moderate rainfall while summers are usually hot and dry.

The Tyrnavos vineyards stretch out across 2,500 hectares, bursting with aromatic grape varieties such as the Roditis, Batiki and Limniona, which are traditionally cultivated in the region, as well as other Greek varieties that were introduced later, such as the Debina, Malagousia and Assyrtiko varieties. the “queen” herself, the red variety Black Muscat of Tyrnavos which covers the largest part of the vineyard region.

The Agricultural Cooperative Winery of Tyrnavos

The Agricultural Cooperative Winery of Tyrnavos was founded in 1961 by vine growers who currently are around 500 members, it produces and bottles – in its state-of-the-art winery and distillery – a full range of select wines of all kinds, with Tyrnavos Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Thessaly PGI, as well as concentrated and rectified concentrated grape must, the celebrated tsipouro of Tyrnavos (grape marc spirit) and ouzo, aromatic Greek retsina (resinated wine), Nama and vin de liqueur, which are available at more than 60 labels.

Awards:

Best Rose Wine Award, Interwine Competition, Guangzhou, China

Silver Award, PAR Greek Wine Award, Γερμανία

Bronze award, Challenge international du Vin, france

Bronze award, International wine and spirit Competition, England