July 08, 2016

July Wine Round-Up: Includes A Grape's Valiant Return to Prominence in Greece

My first wine was from a grape that can trace its history back 6,500 years. The grape was saved from extinction by a group of winemakers in the 1970s. Winemaker Vangelis Gerovassiliou brought together several winemakers to save his native Greek grape Malagousia. Fast forward more than 20 years and this grape is now the fastest growing number of new plantings of any grape in Greece.