Stavroula Kourakou
Xinόmavro
The Wine-grape Variety of Central-Western Macedonia
Xinόmavro
The Wine-grape Variety of Central-Western Macedonia
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I
Cities and people in ancient
times
Historical
brushstrokes
Ancient
vineyards
Dionysiac
cult
Sympotic
vessels
PART II
Xinómavro Vineyards and wines
The grape
variety
Categories
of wines
Wines of Appellation of Origin
Wines of Geographical
Indication
PDO zones
Xinómavro
‘ambassador’
Types of
wines
Ageing –
Labelling
PART III
The development of viticulture
in recent centuries
Textual
testimonies
Ottoman archives
Other sources
Travellers and historiographers
Vogiatsiko
Siatista
Kastoria
The
Macedonian pressing vats
Migration
and trade
Exchange
of populations
Phylloxera
and replanting the vineyards
PARTIV
The main areas of cultivation
ΝAOUSSA in the Prefecture of Imathia
Τhe vinegrowing landscape
Myths and history
Vines and wine
The wine AOHQ Naoussa
Research programmes
Quality is born in the vineyard
The contemporary wine-trade
Addendum
Wine from grapes of the wild vine
ΑΜΥΝΤΑΙΟ in the Prefecture of Florina 121
Amyntaio
in 1962
The soils
of the zone
Three-year research programme
Recognition of ΑOHQ Amyntaio
Twenty-seven centuries of viticulture
The history of the place name
Ancient settlements
A wineland 27 centuries
old
Amyntaio in the 21st century
Vineyards and wines
Technological innovations
The rosé
wines
GOUMENISSA in the
Prefecture of Kilkis
Milestones in its history
Vine and wine
Grape varieties
Viticulture
Vintage
Vinification
Wine-trade
Change in the varietal synthesis
Wine ΑOHQ Goumenissa
Addendum
Pruning the vines and Saint Tryphon
VELVENDO in the
Prefecture of Kozani
The Haliakmon and Lake Polyphytou
Viniferous Velvendo
A 200-year-old
book
The ancient world
Traditions and Post-Byzantine documents
Viticulture in Ottoman times
Τhe wine-trade
RAPSANI on Lower
Olympos
The Community
The vineyard
Τhe wine
The wine AOHQ Rapsani
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgements
Photographic credits