From the vines to the glass

Behind the farm, on the hills that curve away to the east, lie the family vineyards. Two hundred thousand square metres of vine, split between two different jobs.

Cabernet and Merlot

These two varieties go into the house wine, the one that arrives in a carafe, not in a labelled bottle. Picking starts in the second half of August and finishes, in a normal year, before the middle of September.

Shesh and Muskat

The native grapes do not go into wine. They go into raki. It is a decision taken many years ago and unchanged since: Shesh and Muskat give their best after distillation, not before it.

From the vines to the glass, without passing anywhere else.

Why it matters

A restaurant that buys its wine does not know what the year was like. We do. A dry August gives a more concentrated wine; a wet September gives a lighter one. It is why we never describe the house wine in the same words two years running.