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Greek Wines Bearing Gifts

The wines of Greece are quirky and highly individual – and these three bottles show off the harvest at its best.

16/05/2016

Moraitis Estate Sillogi White, Paros, Greece 2015 (from £11.69, The General Wine Company; Jeroboams) Founded in the early 2000s as a labour of love by self-described `middle-aged mummy` Mary Pateras, London-based Greek wine specialist Eclectic Wines has done more than most to raise the profile of the country`s wonderfully quirky, individualistic wines in the UK. Pateras has always understood that what makes Greek wine special is its stock of indigenous grape varieties – such exotic-sounding delights as the dark-berried xinomavro (as mastered by the consistently brilliant Thymiopoulos winery), the perfumed white moschofilero (look out for Semeli`s Feast White 2015), or my current favourites, assyrtiko and malagouzia, the complementary ying-yang white ingredients of the graceful citrus-and-herb-scented Sillogi from the Moraitis Estate on Paros in the Cyclades.

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