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Crete – from bulk to bottle and beyond

Julia Harding
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 13 September 2023
Dafnes region

This southern island may be Greece's most exciting winegrowing region. Pictured above, the Dafnes wine region and the foothills of Mt Psiloritis. For my accompanying producer profiles and tasting notes, A Cretan feast - part 1 and part 2.

Wine has been produced on Crete, the largest and most southerly Greek island, since the third millennium BCE. Thanks to its strategic location in the Mediterranean, with the Aegean to the north and the Libyan Sea to the south, it was at the centre of an extensive trading area. In the first four centuries BCE, sun-dried Cretan wines were...