Athiri

Athiri (Greek Αθήρι ) is an indigenous white grape variety in Greece. Recommended is their cultivation in Crete, the Peloponnese, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades, admitted she is further on the island of Euboea. With a total of 1,008 hectares under vine (as of the late 1990s ) it occupies in Rebsortenspiegel Greece rank 8 of the white varieties.

In addition to her qualities as wine grape it is locally valued as a table grape. The late maturing variety produces a flowery wine and is used mainly for blends with the varieties Assyrtiko and Aidani Aspro, for example, for dry white wines of Santorini and for straw wine Liastos. The dry and delicate white wine " Athiri de Rhodes " is it made ​​on Rhodes. In Crete at Heraklion it is blended with the varieties Thrapsathiri and Vilana to Peza.

Athiri is a variety of the noble vine (Vitis vinifera ). It has hermaphrodite flowers and is thus self- fruiting. When the wine-growing economic disadvantage is avoided, no return delivered to have male plants grow.

There is also a red variety named Athiri Mavro.

See also: Viticulture in Greece and the list of grape varieties.

Synonyms

Athiri is also known under the name Athyri, Athiri Aspro, Athiri Lefko, Asprothiro and Asprothiri.