The best wines from Rhodes in Greece

Rhodes has a wine history of thousands of years. The abundant sun and the cooling of the sea make it a good place for wine growing. Nowadays sweet muscat wines, sparkling wines and dry red and white wines are made.

Rhodes does not lack sun; nor heat. Cooling from the sea and more rainfall than on most other islands makes Rhodes very suitable for wine growing. And that has a long history. Rhodes was already an important wine producer in ancient times. Good wines are still made there. Such as sparkling wine, the oldest in Greece, which is sold there as table wine.

Because there are only three appellations on Rhodes: One for dry white wine from the Athiri grape, one for a sweet muscat called Muscat Triani and one for dark red dry wine from the Mandelaria grape, which is called Amorgiano on Rhodes. The Mandelaria grows on the highest terraces of vineyards on the island.