Kyros Melas, owner of La Tour Melas in Fthiotida, with his oenologists Εlsa Picard from France and Greece’s Panos Zoumboulis.
GREECE BY YIANNIS K AR AK ASIS, MW
The pulse of the country’s wine industry beats fast in its heartland in Central Greece: from Thessaly in the north, Mainland Greece in the center, Attica and the island of Evia in the east, and Aetoloakarnania in the west, this large area is home to one-fourth of the country’s vineyards. Perhaps they are here by divine destiny: according to at least one version of the myth, it was in Central Greece, in the city of Thebes (present-day Thiva), that Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and vine, was born. On the other hand, it might just be a winning combination of climate and land.