Vidiano Single Vineyard 2023

Vidiano is a historic white wine variety indigenous to Crete used to produce mainly dry wines. The grape variety has been revived thanks to the restless and, in fact, successful efforts of the island’s winegrowers during the past 20 years or so.

Vidiano wines are still a rarity outside Crete, but interesting plantings can be found in Thrace’s emerging viticultural area of Maroneia, located southeast of Komotini, northeastern Greece. Some of these vines are owned by winegrower Sakis Katsaridis who cultivates 1.15 ha of Vidiano on sandy-loam soils.

The harvest is vinified and bottled by KtimaKir-Yianni, and the last vintage yielded just 879 bottles. The result is this fresh and vibrant oak-aged wine with complex, well-knit layers of ripe stone fruit flavors, a hint of minerality, all wrapped in a broader yet elegant structure.