437: Drinking with the Minotaur

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Erin Scala explores the renaissance of winemaking happening today on the Greek island of Crete.

Erin narrates a tour through the Crete wine regions near the towns of Heraklion, Chania, and Sitia, and gets answers about grape varieties like Vidiano, Thrapsathiri, Malvasia di Candia, Kotsifali, Liatiko, Plyto, and more.

This episode contains interviews with winemakers and wine professionals working on Crete, including:

Nikos Douloufakis (Douloufakis Winery)

Antonis Dourakis (Dourakis Winery)

Zacharias Diamandakis (Diamandakis Winery)

Abbot Filotheos Spanoudakis (Toplou Monastery)

John Masaoutis (Oenologist)

Yiannis Stilianou (Stilianou Winery)

Nikos Paraskevas (Paraskevas Winery)

Bart Lyrarakis (Lyrarakis Winery)

Afshin Molavi (Manousakis Winery)

Nikos Gavalas (Gavalas Winery)

Maria Tamiolakis (Rhous Winery)

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, About 5 million years ago, the island of Crete rose up in the Mediterranean Sea, just south of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
0:36.3	It's a long island that stretches 160 miles east to west, and it's almost 40 miles wide at its widest point.
0:45.8	The island is bisected lengthwise by a series of mountain ranges which separate the Southern
0:51.6	Creek Coast from the Northern Creek Coast.
0:55.0	Annual winds that cross the island can create interesting climate situations.
1:00.0	Zacharias Diamond Dakeys, of Diamond Dockkeys Winery describes the Maltemy wind that affects his vineyards.
1:07.0	Meltemis is the wind that we have especially in summertime, especially in July.
1:17.0	And all the Aegeon, the island of Aegean Sea, they had Maltemy, Maltemy,
1:21.6	Meltemy and Creek.
1:23.0	Always in July we had this kind of wind.
1:25.9	It's a wind that comes from the north.
1:29.6	And here in Crete, we have the Melteme especially at the two or three weeks of July and we have a lot of
1:38.2	winds that comes from the Aegean, the breeze comes from the Aegean, and stops to the mountains
1:45.2	with the big mountains in Crete, here in the big mountains, especially the big mountain
1:49.7	cilorites.
1:50.9	The wine regions thrive mostly on the northern coast where the climate is more
1:54.9	Mediterranean and great for grapes. You know here we're in Crete so it's it's a hot
2:00.1	with the summers are hot so to have this kind of breeze in the summer, we have low temperatures and that's important
2:10.0	for our microclimate and all the Czech
2:12.6	terrorists that we have in our vineyards.
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