Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal savory finish that leans toward

savory finish that leans toward crushed stone and subtle spice

more elegant cooking

Blanc de Lynch-Bages exemplifies the estate's pursuit of excellence in both red and white wine

The 2020 vintage was warm and generous in Provence

a spring frost on April 7-9 cut yields by roughly 10%

Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal savory finish that leans towardThe Land Crete is the southernmost vineyard land in Europe, closer to North Africa than to Athens, and on paper that should make serious white wine impossible. Altitude is the answer. The Psarades vineyard sits at 480 meters in central Crete, in the hills of Alagni, the most mountainous village in the Peza appellation south of Heraklion, ringed by the Lassithi range. Soils are clay and loam. At that elevation the nights drop hard even in a Cretan