Recently I had blogged about a number of wines from Crete, which I had tasted at the Alexakis booth at last year's Wine Fair. It turns out that Alexakis is the largest privately owned winery in Crete and thus an important ambassador for Cretan wines throughtout the world. Founded in 1977 by a chemical engineer turned vigneron, the winery is family owned and operated, intially by the founder and his wife and now handing over to their two children who studied oenology in Florence and California. They have also collaborated with almost all the winegrowers on the island, drawing upon their extensive knowledge of Cretan varieties, and this results in the high quality of its production.
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