PDO Nemea

The quality of Nemea PDO wines is credited to the uniqueness of the variety, to the soil and climatic conditions of the region, what we briefly call terroir, which determine the microclimate of the zone where the variety thrives. The wine-growing zone of Nemea extends to an altitude of 200-850 meters. It is not completely uniform but is divided into three sub-zones with small but crucial microclimatic differences, resulting in the grapes harvested to show variations in their harvest time, intensity of color, acidity, etc. and proportionately be susceptible to the production of different types of wines. In the first zone (mountain) are classified vineyards located at an altitude of 550-850 meters. In these vineyards there is a delay in the maturation of grapes in relation to the vineyards of the other two zones. The second zone (semi-mountainous) includes the slopes and extends to an altitude of 320-550 meters while the third zone (lowland) includes vineyards at an altitude of 200-320 meters. The harvest begins around the middle of September in the lowland zone where the ripening of the grapes has been completed. This is followed by the semi-mountainous and 20-25 days later the mountainous zone.
«PDO NEMEA» is a wine that every year that passes gains quality, a wine that lives many years. This characteristic, rare for Greek wines, ranks it among the great wines on a global scale.
The vineyard of Zacharias Winery, spreads over an area of 40 He, about 30 He of which are in the wider area of Nemea, and about 10 He in the region of Mantinea. A large part of the vineyard is still located on the slopes around the village of Leontio. There, apart from the native Agiorgitiko, have been extremely adapted and Mavrodaphne and Malagouzia.