Cyprus Slow Wine Pleasures

New vintages, new season….not so fast with Commandaria

What to say, when one is presented with a comparative tasting of 3 different expressions of Commandaria in one sitting…a signal to taking it slow.

Commandaria, a slow wine pleasure

Unlike any other wine in Cyprus that may be demanding for time, when the moment arrives to tasting or enjoying the most emblematic of Island wines, there is foremost a recognition for the context of Commandaria’s existence for that matter.

Tasting, authenticism

Vineyards planted in remote ages, with strains of vines selected and refined over centuries and styles of wine sanctified by time, where their survival through phylloxera was a matter of sheer location… and whose native millenary traditions managed to endure and fructify to this day*.  One can be holding the very living essence andmost recognisable identity of Cyprus in a glass.

The soothing mystique of meditative wines

The slow and sweet wine confidences in the form of the most of secretive whispers witholds the whole magic of Cyprus’s most noble of wines – Commandaria can affirms itself as being such a wine, one that has stories to tell. It is a discovery that sits with having or making the time to enjoy the most of intimate pleasures.

Sustaining the intricate creation of any moment, having to choose between time, place, solo, or accompanied – enjoying life is indeed about instants, and there is no better wine to convey that spirit in Cyprus than with Commandaria.

The Commandaria Suggestions