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Macedonia

May 16, 2009
Argatia

Her choice of white grapes speaks volumes

Assyrtiko originates in Santorini It is now grown with great success on other Aegean islands such as Paros more recently on Tinos It is different on […]
April 18, 2009
To Dakri tou Pefkou 2008 Stelios Kechris and Daughters

Nature’s greatness is infinitely instructive

On the last day of the 9th Thessaloniki International Wine Competition wwwwineroadsgr my Canadian friend and cojudge Tony Aspler asked me to taste a retsina Luckily […]
January 23, 2009
Diaporos Kir Yianni

Not the step forward I would have liked to report

After an acrimonious split with his brother Konstantinos in 1996 Yiannis Boutaris named this Naoussa estate which he first planted in the late 1960s Kir Yianni […]
November 1, 2008
Ghi ke Uranos

When the temperature drops, I yearn for Xinomavro

When the temperature drops I yearn for Xinomavro No other wine is so strongly associated with autumn and winter With so much personality it needs strongly […]
October 15, 2008
Malagousia late harvest

A super early bird look at the long rumoured dessert rendition

A super early bird look at the long rumoured dessert rendition Evangelos Gerovassiliou is the modern father of this once obscure grape Before all you clever […]
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