Ultimately, passion for wine knows no limits, and certainly no age limits. The story of this small winery at Kilani bears witness to this truth.
When a former building contractor who spent 30 successive years of his life in an admittedly difficult job has, at the age of 61, the stamina and pluck to set up even a small winery, is this not passion and enthusiasm?
Costas Erimoudes is the standard good-looking, well-meaning countryman who, on retirement in 1995, got his pension from the Construction Industry Provident Fund and at the same time bought two 300-litre stainless steel fermentation tanks in which he produced his first 200 bottles of wine which he offered to his friends.
The experiment was successful and led to the next venture, but this time the wine was not made from Mavro grapes but from his own vineyard which he had planted in 1992 with the cosmopolitan variety of Cabernet Sauvignon. Today, the production has risen to 21000 bottles. His white wine was given the name of his daughter, “Athina”, and his reds, “Miltiades”, “Nikolina” and “Constantino”, carry the names of his grandchildren.
Source: Cyprus Wine Pages