Xinomavro - The Wine-grape Variety of Central-West Macedonia

Athens: Phoenix, 2017. In English. Cloth, 29 cm, 232 pp. Shipping weight 1500 gr. ISBN: 978-960-6849-67-1.

Xinómavro is a grape variety of Central-Western Macedonia, the cultivation of which takes place in the Prefecture of Emathia and especially in the viticultural zone of Naoussa.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

PART I
Cities and people in ancient times

Historical brushstrokesAncient vineyards
Dionysiac cultSympotic vessels

PART II
Xinómavro Vineyards and wines

The grape varietyCategories of wines
Wines of Appellation of OriginWines of Geographical Indication
PDO zonesXinómavro 'ambassador'
Types of winesAgeing – Labelling

PART III
The development of viticulturein recent centuries

Textual testimonies
Ottoman archivesOther sources
Travellers and historiographersVogiatsiko
SiatistaKastoria
The Macedonian pressing vatsMigration and trade
Exchange of populationsPhylloxera and replanting the vineyards

PARTIV
The main areas of cultivation

ΝAOUSSA in the Prefecture of ImathiaΤhe vinegrowing landscape
Myths and historyVines and wine
The wine AOHQ NaoussaResearch programmes
Quality is born in the vineyardThe contemporary wine-trade

Addendum
Wine from grapes of the wild vine

ΑΜΥΝΤΑΙΟ in the Prefecture of Florina 121

Amyntaio in 1962The soils of the zone
Three-year research programmeRecognition of ΑOHQ Amyntaio
Twenty-seven centuries of viticultureThe history of the place name
Ancient settlementsA wineland 27 centuries old
Amyntaio in the 21st centuryVineyards and wines
Technological innovationsThe rosé wines

GOUMENISSA in the Prefecture of Kilkis

Milestones in its history
Vine and wineGrape varieties
ViticultureVintage
VinificationWine-trade
Change in the varietal synthesisWine ΑOHQ Goumenissa

Addendum
Pruning the vines and Saint Tryphon

VELVENDO in the Prefecture of Kozani

The Haliakmon and Lake PolyphytouViniferous Velvendo
A 200-year-old bookThe ancient world
Traditions and Post-Byzantine documentsViticulture in Ottoman times
Τhe wine-trade

RAPSANI on Lower Olympos:The Community

The vineyardΤhe wine
The wine AOHQ Rapsani

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