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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savory finish that leans toward crushed stone and subtle spice

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

The 2020 vintage was warm and generous in Provence

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