Meet Greece’s Best White Wines
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles. This month: Greece's breakout hitmaker, assyrtiko.
- story: Jon Bonné
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles. This month: Greece's breakout hitmaker, assyrtiko.
The dominant style of Santorini white wines—brisk, acid-driven and clean—are actually a very modern creation. Zachary Sussman explores a crop of producers reinterpreting a pre-industrial, barrel-fermented style known as “Nykteri"—a…