Do you know what was the only positive thing in the last poll vote recently voted? The PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) of Samos was finally released. That is it broke, the compulsory cooperative which, from 1934, forced the wine-growers of the island to give all their production to the cooperative. Now, other new producers can (officially) produce wine and use the word Samos on their label.
Certainly, the history of Nopera wines is anything but fresh news. It starts in the mid 19th century when the Nopera family abandoned Malta to migrate to the island of Samos. There, from the earliest years, they produced high-quality wine which soon became widely known to France.
Nopera's family descendant, Nicholas Mytilineos along with the winegrower and winemaker Yiannis Kostakis founded Nopera Wines in order to revive the historical family vineyard.
The 40-acre vineyard area is cultivated with organic and biodynamic techniques aiming at highlighting the complexity of the terroir and the unique characteristics of the Muscat variety.
The Roya of Nopera Wines comes from a single vineyard in the area called Roya which is ideal for the production of dry Muscat wines.
With minimal intervention in winemaking, the Roya is an extremely subtle and delicate dry white wine of the charismatic variety which seems to have finally abandoned the sweet wine stereotypes to prove that it is as good, or even better, in producing dry white wines.
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