Wine & Spirits
€38.00
The indigenous Maratheftiko grape is notoriously difficult to cultivate — it requires a pollination partner and yields are small. The reward is a wine of remarkable complexity: dark cherry, black olive, warm spice, and the mineral signature of volcanic limestone soil. This reserve spent fourteen months in French oak. Serve at cellar temperature.
Commandaria, Cyprus
Producing wine in the world's oldest named appellation — a distinction held since the Crusades. The vineyards sit at 800 metres on limestone slopes where Xynisteri and Mavro grapes develop slowly through long, cool autumns. Every bottle carries four thousand years of unbroken tradition.