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.

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