​​Mavrotragano is a dark-skinned grape grown mainly on the Cyclades islands, with some great examples from Santorini and Tinos. In recent years a few efforts occurred on the mainland with commercial success and helped Mavrotragano to find its place. However, although the variety has already gained a high-quality status, its full potential still needs to be discovered.

It is austere initially and needs an hour in a carafe to show its true potential.

Once it opens up, it will hit you with tonnes of apricot, orange, grapefruit, flint, white pepper and jasmine.

It is very fine. It is complex and dressed in silk. A fantastic, pronounced chamomile aroma blows up your mind.

It is like you smell a summer breeze from the sea with intense iodine.

Nykteri was Santorini's white fine wine in the past. The grapes were picked early in the morning before the heat made things complicated, and the grapes were pressed the same night when the temperature was more relaxed, and daylight could not cause oxidation problems.

Karamolegos winery seems to be the most innovative on the island of Santorini, with their wines expressing the terroir in various ways. Pyritis is a genuinely authentic wine with minimal interventions by the winemaker and crystal purity into the glass.

Artemis Karamolegos winery handled Mandilaria in a sufficiently smart way. They crafted a pale wine with light tannins that even the aromas remind of Valpolicella. Another dimension of Mandilaria.

The quality development of the wine portfolio of Karamolegos Winery in the last years is enormous. All the winery's wines, from the cheapest until the most expensive, deserve every single euro of the sale price.

It is an excellent wine, dominated by Santorini’s terroir, at an affordable price.