Research conducted by Botilia.gr has resulted in the crowning of the 21 best Greek wines. 50.000 consumers, oenologists and sommeliers participated in rating thousands of wines sold on the site, and consumed in 2021.

At the top of the list, as Greece’s best wine, is the internationally renowned and priced Cuvee Monsignori from the Argyros Estate on Santorini. It takes its unusual name from the word Santorinians use for their old vines; the monsignori are the over 200-year-old ungrafted vines, undamaged by the phylloxera pest, that still grow in its vineyards today.

In second place we find Bucephale from the Ligas Winery in Pella, made with the most concentrated fruit from old vines, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured for 18 months in French, oak barrels. A natural wine, it’s bottled unfiltered and without any other interventions. Produced in limited quantity, it’s purchased before it’s even bottled and exported to the best restaurants in the world.

Third on the list is one of the few Greek wines that has established itself as much abroad as in Greece, scoring high and receiving excellent distinctions: the Alpha Estate’s Xinomavro Reserve. The “Barba Giannis” vineyards, with pre-phylloxera vines planted in 1919, provide the excellent fruit for this world-class wine.

Here’s is the complete list of Greece’s 21 best wines, according to Botilia.gr:

1. Cuvee Monsignori, Argyros Estate
2. Bucephale, Ligas Winery
3. Xinomavro Reserve, Alpha Estate
4. Ftelos Santorini Artemis Karamolegos Winery
5. Le Roi des Montagnes Cuvee Papargyriou Winery
6. Moschopolis 18 Moschopolis Winery
7. Driopi Reserve Driopi Estate
8. Elia Vidiano Karavitakis Vineyards
9. Rilancio Sangiovese Karipidis Winery
10. Adagio Day Five Jima Winery
11. Earth and Sky Thymiopoulos Vineyards
12. Le Sang de la Pierre Aivalis Winery
13. Ramnista Kir Yianni
14. Moschopolis 24 Moschopolis Winery
15. Tear of the Pine Kechris Winery
16. Rose de Xinomavro Thymiopoulos Vineyards
17. L’ Esprit du Lac Kir Yiannis
18. Amuse Rose Muses Estate
19. Bold Karavitakis Vineyards
20. Naoussa Kelesidi Winery
21. F by Foivos Papastratis

This article was previously published in Greek at moneyreview.gr.