WELCOME TO GREEK WINES

PGI Drama in northern Greece is already home to some of the most internationally well-known Greek wineries (as a click on the corresponding tag on this blog will also show). In 2019, a newcomer joined them that, despite the already fairly high density of producers, made connoisseurs of Greek wine sit up and take notice – "Ktima Erithrou Rodou" from Giannis Triantafillidis and Katerina Karampatea. Neither of them is a stranger to the world of wine, and both have already served

A wine from the creative Acheon Winery (see here) that goes through an impressive evolution in the glass. Opened cold, at first you smell – nothing at all. On the palate, too, hardly any flavour shows, and the alcohol – 13%, no less – is practically imperceptible. If anything, you'd think of apple spritzer. Only over time does it turn, on the palate, into cloudy apple must. Later on, increasingly mineral notes also show up on the nose – which then abruptly give way to fine st

Acheon Winery (stressed on the last syllable) lies between the Meganitis river to the west and, much closer, the Selinous to the east, not far from the town of Aigio, within the eponymous Aigialeia region, whose wine Pausanias already praised. A very thorough introduction to the unique terroir of the corresponding PGI is provided by Yiannis Karakasis in this blog post. As he points out, a PDO label tailored to the Roditis variety would make a lot of strategic sense going forw

"Alpha Estate" is the Greek estate founding of the last twenty years that has drawn as much international attention as, probably, only "Ktima Biblia Chora," likewise located in northern Greece, about which we reported recently. Here too, two founders stand behind the estate, with the roles clearly divided. Makis Mavridis (right in the photo below) is a second-generation winegrower from the area and is responsible for the vineyards. Angelos Iatridis (left in the photo below) h

The village of Adriani in PGI Drama is home to a whole string of internationally significant wineries, including Domaine Costa Lazaridi, which we reported on recently. Estate Manolesakis, by contrast, is a medium-sized family business with 7 permanent employees, on a property that nonetheless covers a considerable 1500m2. The Manolesakis family has been growing French varieties (Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah) since 1989. Son Stavros has sin

We've been following the "Giannikos Winery" with interest for a few years now, ever since we came across their attractively designed bottles in a small organic shop in Zurich. We're pleased to see it improving continuously and positioning itself ever more strongly on the international market. Our website is naturally also meant to discuss and place the well-known wines of the "big names" (see for instance here), but it's just as much our interest to introduce smaller winemake