Grape 

Aidani

Aidani is a white aromatic grape found mainly on the Aegean islands, particularly Santorini, Rhodes and Euboea. It is used invariably in the making of Santorini’s Vinsanto and contributes delicate flavours to this special wine blend. Historically, it has been linked with famous wine blends, such as Aperanthitis, Malvasia and Naxos. It is often known as Aidani Aspro, to distinguish it from its dark-skinned variant Aidani Mavro (in Greek, aspro means white and mavro means black). Large bunches of thick-skinned berries, drought-resistant, high yielding, late budding and late ripening.

Monemvasia

Monemvasia takes its name from the breath-taking Monemvasia town in Locania, Pelopennese. Despite its origin, today Cycladic Islands and mainly Paros produces most of this ancient grape variety. Monemvasia yields in moderate to high alcoholic but low-acid white wines with fruity tastes and aromas.

Producer

Vriniotis

The winery sits at the heart of the 40ha large family vineyard in Gialtra, a small village of northern Evia, 14 km from Aidipsos Spa town. The vineyard spreads across the foothills of mountain “Telethrio”, next to Istiaia and the Aegean Sea, at an altitude ranging from 150 to 400m. The first plantings of mainly indigenous grape varieties were carried out by Konstantinos Vriniotis’s father. Amongst them, Vradiano is a rare and endangered Greek variety, only to be found in Northern Evia and due to its remote location and challenging access nowhere else in the world. The family has revived and cultivates the variety in the last 20 years, producing two monovarietal wines, the highly acclaimed Vradiano Wild Ferment, a highly extracted red, matured in French oak for 12 months and the unusual “herbal” and food-friendly rose, IAMA. The winemaking at the winery is a family affair, always done with care and the necessary help of modern technology with a human in command. Red wines mature in the winery’s own cellar and they are bottled unfiltered.