Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal a spring frost on April

a spring frost on April 7-9 cut yields by roughly 10%

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The 2020 vintage was warm and generous in Provence

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

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Lyrarakis Psarades Dafni 2025 Portugal a spring frost on AprilThe 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