"What is particularly thrilling is the fact that the Greek wine industry is so ancient. It is quite possible that some of the vine varieties grown today are the same as those experienced by participants in classical symposia and Dionysian revels. Santorini's Assyrtiko, Roditis and Savatiano are widely planted varieties for white wines and Agiorgitiko, Mavrodaphne, Xynomavro and, to a lesser extent, Limnio are some of the better-known dark-skinned grapes. Among wines that attest to Greece’s ability to make well-balanced but truly interesting reds too are firm and oak-aged Naoussa made from Xinomavro in the far north, intensely perfumed Agiorgitiko grown at Nemea on the east coast of the Peloponnese."
Jancis Robinson MW
British wine critic, journalist, editor, wine writer at the Financial Times and advisor for Queen Elizabeth II's wine cellar.