Nemea winemakers taking stock of fire damage to vines

As the last embers died out from a wildfire that ripped through one of Greece's most valuable wine regions last week, the grape-growers and winemakers of Nemea in the northern Peloponnese starting take stock of the damage to the crop over the weekend, before state officials prepare to visit the area this week to begin a formal assessment.

"The winery and the people are okay, but a lot of hectares have been burned; we just don't know exactly how many yet," the head of marketing at Semeli, Maria Panagiotopoulou, tells Kathimerini.

Dimitris Skouras from Domaine Skouras is also counting his losses, adding that "a lot of the vines which didn't burn have suffered from thermal shock." 

At Gaia, winemaker Yiannis Paraskevopoulos estimates that at least 2 hectares planted with Mavrodafni, Agiorgitiko and Assyrtiko grapes are gone.

"The destruction would have been...