The Yang Of Greek Wine
by Peter Pharos
By now this is so well-known that repeating it enters broken record territory. The biggest story for Greek wine the past 20 years has been the rise of Assyrtiko. From...
Topic: Assyrtiko
Too Difficult?
by Harry Eyres
Yeats entitled one of his mid-life poems ‘The Fascination of What’s Difficult’. The poem is mainly a complaint, about the tangled business of running a theatre (the Abbey in Dublin)...
Where Is Greek Wine Today?
by Peter Pharos
An old wine professional I occasionally engage with on social media is not very impressed with Greek wine. He claims he has never had one he would describe as world...
Santorini 2023 Report
by Peter Pharos
“What a wine”, I commented on the Instagram feed of a London wine merchant who had just posted a new import from Etna. “Good enough to give anything on Santorini...
Santorini Assyrtiko 2022 Report
by Peter Pharos
It is rather unlucky, if not downright unwise, to start producing a report on a grape variety at a point in time where its prime terroir underperformed. When I compiled...