We're here in athens greece with Yiannis Karakasis who's a wine master we at santorini dave.com in
addition to doing great travel guides and hotel and restaurant reviews are trying to help our
readers to broaden their experience and their journey here in greece Yiannis it's great to be
with you can you tell me a little bit about trends in greek wine i'd love to hear about sort of your
ideas of what's going on right now in the greek wine industry in the greek wine community that our
readers and uh community would be interested in several things first of all concerning white wines
we have a lot of wines in a style which is mineral you know fresh crisp not a lot of alcohol
we have also the evolution of a different style for red wines no elegant red wines not
a lot of tannins very fruity some of them with carbonic maceration you know in a beaujolais
style we have of course you know a lot of natural law intervention wines
from all parts in in greece we have also the emergence of the wines of the islands
this is very important because we have so many islands in greece actually i don't remember the
number but um if you if you choose an island you can find a winery and i can see this growing year
by year so we started with um six wineries in santorini in 1989 now there are 20. if you go to
kefalonia seven or eight wineries if you go to tinos six or seven wineries in crete more than
you know maybe 100 wineries 100 producers if you go to islands now like for example nesiros
we have a new winery coming up over the next years uh if you go to Serifos you can find
the one so we have the rise of uh the wines of the islands which for me is very important why
because the connection greek island with the international audience is very strong
and this is a great way to promote uh our our heritage uh what else we have for of course the
evolution of a new pale pale rose color wines you know the provence style wines um what else let me
think i think more or less these are the things that's great and something and so these are all
these trends that you made reference to um are opportunities for visitors to greece to dive into
those new trends right and to taste something different of course we have also a contemporary
side of retina new very well crafted good quality irritated wines that you know they're fun to drink
they are perfect pairings with food easy but complex wines not you know sometimes we think that
a wine which is simple cannot cannot be good which is not the case simplicity sometimes purity
clarity of fruit are you know characteristics of a great wine great and with all these wineries that
currently exist and more coming on each year it's a wonderful opportunity for visitors to greece to
experience the wine culture and to get out and try things and understand greek wines in new
and exciting ways yeah can't agree more because what what chris wines greek wine offers is this
individuality is a different experience we all seek for experience in our food and wine travels
in in our journeys in a vacation journey so greek wine ticks all the boxes of what a contemporary
person can look for wine great again we're here with Yiannis Karakasis wine master in athens
greece and we're talking about all things greek wine Yiannis it's great to be with you thank you
so much for sharing your knowledge with us looking forward if you enjoyed this video please like and
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