Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal It has the weight and

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

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Blanc de Lynch-Bages exemplifies the estate's pursuit of excellence in both red and white wine

Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal It has the weight andThe 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