WELCOME TO GREEK WINES

Great wines always come with a story attached. And that's certainly true of Gerovassiliou's Malagousia. The beginnings of this story, though, are decidedly murky. (As a starting point, this post by Yiannis Karakasis is recommended; anyone wanting to go down the rabbit hole should follow the trail laid by the Keith Edwards piece linked at the end…) What's known for certain is that the Malagousia vine was cultivated in the first half of the 20th century in western Greece, along

"Pretty good," we'd naturally say – otherwise we wouldn't have made this website. But what does that actually mean? Anyone newly interested in wine from Greece would understandably like to know a bit more precisely. So in this post we want to talk a little about how we rate the wines we taste for you. Different rating systems ## The 100-point system The rating system you encounter most often is the 100-point scale, made famous above all by Robert Parker, but also very commonl

Starting our series on Greek wineries with "Ktima Gerovassiliou" (pronounced: Yerovasilíu) makes sense on many levels. This is, without question, one of the most respected producers of Greek wine, and you could even say that modern Greek winemaking, now making waves internationally too, wouldn't exist without the contribution of Evangelos Gerovassiliou, born 1951. It's therefore no coincidence either that the TV documentary (in German) on Greek wines already discussed here op

Jancis Robinson, one of the world's most important wine critics, has just published a blog post in which she talks about dream (wine) travel destinations, suggesting that in pandemic times, selected bottles can keep memories alive. In it, she also talks about Greece. (Anyone who hasn't yet been to Greece can, of course, let the wine be exactly what first stirs up the wish to travel there…) She writes, specifically: Azure water, blindingly white walls, fresh fish, tiny churche