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VINE YARDS FOR SALE
In LESVOS
Ever dreamed
of owning your own vine yard?
Once upon
a Time
Lesvos
was more famous for its wine than its olive oil. It was
the
most expensive in the markets of ancient Athens, Rome and the Byzantine
Constantinople and the only wine in the harems of the Turkish sultans. According
to Archestratos "Deipnologos" (4th century B.C.), an ancient writer and fanatic
connoisseur, the wine of Lesvos was the best of the antiquity:
"I can
name and praise the wines produced in other cities and their names I do not
forget.
But none of them is compared to the wine of Lesvos."
(Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, A, 52d)
Unfortunately, the ancient Lesvos Grape Variety, which produced this exquisite
wine, was almost destroyed by phylloxera at around the middle of the 20th
century. Wine making continued at a small scale mostly for domestic use.
However
in 1985, a Lesviot with imagination and vitality started replanting, using buds
from the last remaining vines of the island grafted on rootstock resistant to
phylloxera. The ancient variety was later identified and classified as unique
through the use of DNA techniques. This has in fact resurrected the potential of
the Lesvos Grape Variety and has started a whole new era for wine making on the
island with the first organic vineyard properly established and trading right
now.
If a Vineyard of your Own is
the Dream Hibiscus Real Estate Services can help you find
suitable land ( various sizes) across the island of Lesvos and provide the
Consultancy for the planning of the vineyard as well as the intallation of the
Vines.
If on the other hand all you
are looking for is a cosy Cottage with a small established Vine Patch so you can
make your own wine, we can help you there too, with available properties.
Just
E mail
for details
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