Winemaker Notes
The Hoof & Lur 2020 has a brilliant rosé color. Floral with powdered sugar and blood orange that entice on the nose. Citrus notes and fresh acidity add vibrancy to the palate.
“Hoof & Lur” is an excellent accompaniment to dishes based on Mediterranean dishes and seafood.
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Wine & Spirits
Moschofilero’s dusky color comes through in this wine, the crushed fruit fermented with ambient yeasts and left on the skins until the juice turns a pink-orange. The style embraces the variety’s aromatics as well, the wine as fragrant as rose-scented loukoumi. It’s tart and juicy, with notes of rhubarb, tart cherry and dried orange that grow more expressive with time in the glass. It would be delicious with a watermelon-feta salad, or a salty cheese pie.
A pink-skinned variety from the Peloponnese, Greek Moschofilero produces a delicatly perfumed, fresh white wine. There on the Mantineia plateau, the cool growing conditions allow ample time for the grapes to develop balanced sugars and aromatics. Moschofilero is actually the most popular of many mutations of the ancient Fileri grape. These range in color from white to red and produce an array of styles including fruity pink and sparkling versions. Somm Secret—If you already love Muscat, definitely try Moschofilero. Though the grapes are unrelated, they produce remarkably similar wines.
A large southern region of Greece, the Peloponnese contains the famous appellations of Nemea and Mantineia. While connected to the mainland by a tiny strip of land, essentially the region is a large Mediterranean island and excels in the production of red wine from Agiorghitiko, white from Moscofilero and sweet wine from the Mavrodaphne grape.