Zakynthino

This rare and versatile variety, as its name suggests, originates from neighboring Zakynthos. It moved to southern Kefalonia 600 – 700 years ago from Zakynthian families or monks of the monastery of Ag. Dionysiou of Kefalonia. The variety was easily assimilated in the southern Kefalonian region of Eleios and spread rapidly thereof; currently it represents the most   basic variety of our region. Over time, there is a gradual decline of its cultivation in Zakynthos, where it no longer seems to exist. Growing up with the taste of this grape and vinifying it for more than a century, we are convinced that the variety has great potential and can produce wines of the highest expectations and pleasures. It is the very first wine that was bottled by the family in 1950, in Alsatian type bottles with an elaborate label made by the artist Varlamos. Most of the vineyards in our area are 50-60 years old with  own-rooted Pre-Phylloxera vines.  The most charismatic locations for the cultivation of the variety are the clay-sandy southeastern slopes of the villages of Thiramona, Mavrata, Ratzakli. The ash colored soil of the area (the so-called sands), the sea breeze but also the aerates winds that keep the grapes dry from the high morning humidity of the wider area, are the determining quality factors that differentiate and highlight these excellent vineyards of the Zakynthino variety.