The Kyperounda Winery brought together the local vine-growers of Kyperounda village, one of the biggest and most dynamic companies in Cyprus (Photos Photiades) and a most capable and talented young oenologist, Mr Minas Mina.
The winery’s first wines were bottled in 2003 and their appearance on the local wine market gave a shake-up to the still waters of complacency in matters of wine. The six labels of this new and modern winery, two for white, a rosι and three for red wines, are the best that the Cyprus wine market has to exhibit at this moment, and are currently at the top of Cyprus’s wines for they include a very good Chardonnay (the best on the island), an exceptional wine from the indigenous Xynisteri grape (Petritis), and a Cabernet Sauvignon of a density, structure and balance that effortlessly place it at the top of Cyprus reds.
Andessitis has managed to catch up, in quality, with the other wines of the winery, for the last two vintages that I have tasted show obvious improvement. In the last few years the producer has expanded his range of wines with two new labels, the Kyperounda Rosι and the Kyperounda Shiraz. Any time now the winery’s Commandaria will be released, thus completing the range with the so far non-existent sweet wine. I am more than convinced that the Kyperounda investment (in my view the most interesting and most promising over the last decade) will in the near future constitute one of the basic quality pylons on which to carve the new upgraded image of Cyprus wine.
Source: Cyprus Wine Pages