Among the 50 Great Greek Wines
Six hundred and nine wines were tasted. Ours was in the fifty.
What the list is
The 50 Great Greek Wines is an annual selection covering Greece and Cyprus. The judging happened in Santorini at the start of October 2023; the list itself was announced on 15 November at the conference centre of the Grand Resort Lagonissi, and the awards were handed to the producers that evening.
The field
609 wines were assessed, from 201 wineries. Cyprus sent 17 of those wineries. The panel was seven Masters of Wine, from the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and Belgium.
Which wine
Our Xynisteri 2022 made the fifty. It was the first time we had entered.
Xynisteri is the wine most people in Cyprus already know us by, which makes the result easy to misread. It was not a new wine made to win something. It was the one we make every year, tasted blind against six hundred others by people who had never heard of us.
What we take from it
A place on a list is a reading of one vintage, taken on one day. It tells us the Xynisteri travels — that it holds up outside the island, in front of palates with no reason to be kind to it. That is worth knowing. It is not worth rearranging the cellar for.
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