#wine

Cyprus’ traditional wine, Commandaria, has been officially inscribed on the Unesco Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision was announced on Wednesday by the intergovernmental committee ...

Cyprus wine exports increased by 3% in 2024, compared to 2023, amounting to €1.3 million, Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry said on Saturday, while speaking at the opening of the annual Wine Festival ...

The ministry of agriculture has begun immediate assessments for crop damage across 28 communities in Limassol following the massive wildfires, it announced on Friday. However, winemakers are voicing concern that the ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou has praised the 800-year-old history of Cyprus’ famed commandaria referencing the sweet wine’s very first award all the way back in 1224. She was addressing the ...

It is already evident that tables this year have not be laden with the green and burgundy varieties of sweet grapes we have been used to in Cyprus – another inconvenience ...

By Robert Morgan The organisation 50 Great Greek Wines (50 GGW) and the Hellenic Tourism Organisation promoted Greek and Cypriot wines in London on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, with Cyprus represented ...

Over half of the domestic wine market is covered by Cypriot wines, the House commerce committee heard on Tuesday. The agriculture ministry estimates that 55 per cent of wines available in ...

Classes poised to start next year in Vouni The vine-growing mountain village of Vouni is set to become the proud location of Cyprus’ first ever recognised Wine Sommelier School. In ...

Wine cooperative Sodap will not be receiving any grapes this year due to its large stocks, acting director Michalis Solonos announced on Friday. Solonos told the Cyprus News Agency that ...

Three Cyprus wine took home the “big gold medal”, the highest possible award bestowed upon local wines, at the 14th annual Cyprus Wine Competition, the ministry of agriculture said on ...

In Farmakas a winemaker is making wine the old-fashioned way from old vines, with extraordinary results By Matthew Stowell Seven years ago, Daniel Anastasis, owner of Santa Irene Winery in ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday pledged to take action to help the 14 villages that produce commandaria – a sweet dessert wine – and who are experiencing a bottleneck in sales and distribution. A delegation ...

Cypriot wine exports are up over 60 per cent, Commerce Minister Natasa Pilides said on Saturday night opening the annual Wine Festival in Limassol. “The ministry of commerce, realising the dynamics ...

Cypriot wineries have joined forces to launch the Cyprus Wine Consortium to better promote their products in a group rather than individually. The consortium includes 16 local wineries brought together by ...

A prestigious sommelier contest was held on the island this week, won by a Sicilian who now works in London What a great week it has been for the wine ...

But state aid for troubled wineries has not quite been all it seems After a disastrous last year, a return of tourists, a good grape harvest and government support schemes ...

Cyprus’ rich wine history is being used to encourage tourists and locals to follow the ‘Troodos Wine Routes’, following a history that dates back 6,000 years with poets and historians including ...