The Field Guide
Northern Greece
Greece's answer to Barolo, grown on mountains most maps ignore. This is Xinomavro country — tannic, high-toned, built to age — spread across a handful of cool appellations below the Balkans.
Macedonia & Thessaly · five appellations
Northern Greece
The history
Wine older than the word for it — northern Greece has grown Xinomavro since antiquity, long overshadowed by the islands and the south.
The land
Continental and high: cold winters, mountain air off the Balkans, and the shadow of Mount Olympus falling across Rapsani's slopes.
Wine styles
Pale, fierce, tannic Xinomavro that softens into tomato, olive and dried rose with age — the Nebbiolo of the Aegean.
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