Trying to find out much about the Mercouri Estate is tricky as their website appears to be fully offline at the moment although their Twitter is up and running. This is a shame as this wine of theirs that I picked up while in Athens in the fall is simply wonderful, although disarmingly so. The name is a play on the Greek grape name, Mavrodaphne which is found in the Peloponnese region–a region that has some outstanding wines given what I tasted at several winemaker dinners including Skouras. When first […]

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