Cair (winery)
CAIR is a winery in Rhodes in the form of a joint stock company ( Greek Ανώνυμη Εταιρεία Anonimi Eteria ). The company has a dominant position in the production of sparkling wines in Greece (see Viticulture in Greece ) . Meanwhile, other wines are produced, such as from Athiri gekelterte white wine Rodos 2400 . The largest competitor is the Emery S.A. winery, which is also based in Rhodes .
The company owns only 2.5 hectares of vineyards, but buys the harvest of almost 1,100 hectares from a few hundred contract winemakers. More than 6.5 million bottles are bottled each year.
history
The viticulture in Rhodes goes far back into antiquity, it can be found in numerous Greek and Roman sources positive mentions. The winery CAIR was founded in 1928 during the Italian occupation (1912-1943) as a cooperative and produced initially exclusively sparkling wines in traditional bottle fermentation . Today the inexpensive basic products are produced using the Charmat method .
literature
- Konstantinos Lazarakis: The Wines of Greece . Mitchell Beazley, London 2005, ISBN 1-84000-897-0 .