Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal our priority remains maintaining the

our priority remains maintaining the highest quality in our offerings

judging the classification too generous

The soils here are brown iron-rich schist — denser and darker than the mica-schist of the Côte Blonde to the south — and the wines reflect it: more tannic

savory finish that leans toward crushed stone and subtle spice

It has the weight and the keeping power of the village up the road

Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal our priority remains maintaining theThe Land Crete is the southernmost vineyard land in Europe, closer to North Africa than to Athens, and on paper that should make serious white wine impossible. Altitude is the answer. The Psarades vineyard sits at 480 meters in central Crete, in the hills of Alagni, the most mountainous village in the Peza appellation south of Heraklion, ringed by the Lassithi range. Soils are clay and loam. At that elevation the nights drop hard even in a Cretan