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Loel Ltd

Street

Acropolis Street 18

Town

Limassol

P.O. Box

50139

Country

CYPRUS

P.O. Box Postal Code

3601

Telephone

25579344

Telephone (2)

25579345

Fax

25564042

E-mail

Website

http://www.loel.com.cy/

Visited

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LOEL was founded in 1943 and has been the first winery in Cyprus in the form of an organized public company with thousands of shareholders who, in their great majority, are vine growers. At the initial stages distilled products and fortified wines were introduced as the constitute the best that could be produced from the Cyprus indigenous grape varieties like Mavra, Xynisteri and especially Muscat of Alexandria, from which the best known Cyprus wine, the LOEL Muscat has been created. By the lapse of the years the Ministry of Agriculture, in order to upgrade the qualities of Cyprus wines, decided to encourage re-cultivation with imported noble vine varieties like Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon, Palomino etc. internationally accepted to produce the best wine grapes in the world, so that Cyprus would rank amongst the countries able to present the finest wines in the world. This policy was adopted with enthusiasm by LOEL who created the first experimental vineyards of these varieties.