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Aes Ambelis The Aes Ambelis winery, the nearest to Nicosia, only 30 kilometres from the centre of the capital, is a modern functional building that stands out, on your right, on the road to Palehori – one of the largest mountain villages of the island. Its structure was well planned so as to satisfy the needs of a modern, dynamic and ambitious winery. It rises on two levels, thus making good use of gravity in the process of transferring the must to the wine tanks without messing it up with the use of pumps. The circular shape of the actual winemaking section of the building obviously allows the winemaker to have full control over the stainless steel tanks during the critical phases of extraction and fermentation. The winery has a consultant oenologist from Greece who comes over at specific times during the year, both at the critical periods of harvesting and vinification and also during all the other processes down to bottling. The vineyard all round the winery is expanding year by year so that it can cover the needs of the greatest part, if not the whole, of the targeted wine production.
Apart from the privately-owned vineyard all around the winery, there is also an expanse of vineyard land at Farmakas village which was recently bought by Mr George Tripatsas, the winery's owner. Although the privately-owned vineyard is gradually being expanded, the producer is also cooperating with specific vinegrowers in Lemesos and Paphos districts whom he advises as to vine-tending techniques as well as the timing and manner of harvesting.
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