Mercouri

Producer description of "Mercouri Estate S.A."

The Greek winery "Mercouri Estate", with its headquarters near the city of Olympia in the western , was founded in 1860 by Theodore Mercouri from Alexandria (Egypt). In 1870 he imported the Italian variety Refosco from Friuli and planted his first vineyard. At that time wine was exported to Trieste in barrels. But olive oil and currants (raisins) were also produced (even today). The son of the founder, Leonidas Mercouri, built the first modern winery in this area in the 1930's and ran the estate until 1955, when grapes were produced but no wine was made. In 1990, the estate was reactivated by brothers Vassilis and Christos Kanellakopoulos, who are Mercouri's fourth generation descendants. They introduced a new Refosco clone, whereby the vine is traditionally called Mercouri here. There is a lot of experimentation with autochthonous and foreign grape varieties.

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