WELCOME TO GREEK WINES

Four-decade-old legends alongside wines that have only just reached the shelves; monastery wines from Mount Athos next to a Tuscan that lined up as the benchmark: in the first half of 2026, 62 new tasting notes appeared on griechische-weine.info — 60 reds, two whites, among them a striking number of vertical tastings. We didn't drink all of it this spring: many of the wines come from tastings in 2024 and 2025 and have only now been digitised. So this is less a diary of the se

Three Syrahs, one vintage, two climate worlds: Penfolds St Henri meets Lacules and Manousakis Nostos. Why Australia's cool dream vintage produced the most powerful wine – and Greece's fire vintage the more elegant ones.

Assyrtiko is Greece's most famous white grape – mineral, citrus-fresh, remarkably age-worthy. Santorini vs. the mainland, taste, food pairings, and our top-rated Assyrtikos.

We've already talked about Agiorgitiko on this blog at length – though as a blending partner for international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah. As a single varietal? Nowhere to be found. And yet we long ago devoted a whole masterclass to the other Greek variety that lays claim to being king among the red grapes – Xinomavro. So Agiorgitiko gets somewhat short shrift here, and that isn't entirely fair. Because according to the official ELSTAT data for 2020