Zakynthos Wines

Island of Zante used to have, in the past, a large varietal range and some of those varieties are still cultivated: Avgoustiatis, Skiadopoulo, Pavlos, Katsakoulias and Robola. Most of the island wines are distributed as Traditional Designation Verdea, a white wine whose name comes from the word verde (green) and, probably, indicates that during its production green, unripe grapes were used in order to increase the low, due to high maturation, acidity. Traditionally it was a dry, high alcohol wine, aged in oak barrels for some time. Today, however, we can also find more modern Verdea wines.