Pliades

Each  professional divides the year usually according to the job. For example, a school supplies dealer starts the year with the start of classes in schools, a tourism professional in the Greek islands by early summer, etc. For wine producers   the year you would think that begins when the grapes come in winery in late summer or early autumn or late autumn to mid winter (ice wine).A real confusion!!!

The ancient Greeks correct thinking, as always, linked the production of wine with the appearance  of the grapes in the vineyard. This approach could not be different for each winemaker.

 

The small unripe grapes appear at the end of May. From this time the vine lives to make the best fruit in order to continue to exist as a species on the planet. Golden opportunity for us to harvest tasty and healthy grapes. Tired at the end of October will stop this process to rest, satisfied with what is usually achieved

So anyone who believes that the quality of wine is the result of the quality of grapes and not of the wine-making aids, the above dates do not leave him unmoved. If we would like to lock this season with the eternity of the universe, we only have to look at the sky. We see therefore that at the end of May poulia rises and sets at the end of October. The light poulia is the group of tuples. In the life of the Greeks from Homeric times tuples was the most loved and talked constellation. It was said that they were daughters of Atlas and Plioni and they were named Alkioni, Maia, Merope, Electra, Celaeno, Taygeti and Steropi.

 

For all of us who work in the Giannakis winery, tuples contain many symbols for which we will refer several times