Since 1995 and the first edition of the book Vine – Tending, Domaine Hatzimichalis uses the Greek term chora to describe the combination of land – climate – man, or what the French call “terroir”.
The term was inspired by Theophrastus, a philosopher of the 4th c. BC and student of Aristotle. Theophrastus talks about the special prerequisites for successful viticulture, whereby man must combine soil, climate and ecosystem. The concept of chora or single vineyard involves three factors: .
- Soil and subsoil. The defining parameters are the ground’s nature, structure and geological composition, its porosity, its pH value, its water balance and the trace elements in it;
- Climate and microclimate. The vineyard’s orientation and hence its exposure to sunlight and wind, temperature, rainfall, etc.;
- Ecosystem/site. The main parameters here are longitude and latitude, flora and fauna, topography and the environment.
We are currently cultivating the distinctive single vineyards that appear on the left
