91pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

In the bottle with the adorable one-eyed creature depicted on the front label, the Mylonas Winery 2023 Assyrtiko (with fruit from Attica in central Greece) reveals ample freshness and stonewashed minerality. There is some of that natural richness or firmness that you get with the Assyrtiko grape, only in this rendition the wine strives for accessibility and brightness. These two goals are achieved very nicely here.

Tasting Notes

A complex aromatic palate where mineral elements coexist with citrus fruit flavors, wets stone and white flowers. Full-bodied and lively on the palate. Try this with seafood, fatty fish or traditional Greek dishes based on lemon such as lamb fricassee.

About the Winery

The history of our winery starts almost a century ago, back in 1917 in the region of Keratea in Eastern Attica, with our grandfather Antonis, whose main occupation was the vine and winemaking. He left the grape must to ferment in amphorae, since stainless steel tanks were unknown at that time.

Later the small business passed to our father, Dimitris, who continued the wine tradition of our grandfather, expanding the enterprise with purchase of new vineyards creating at the same time a small, modern winery. Beside our father, three sons, Antonis, Tasos and Stamatis playing with soil and grapes as little children, growing up observing the soil, weather and wind learning how to talk with the vine, digging and pruning it so much that in the end it became part of ourselves. It was only natural to turn the vine and the wine into our profession, Stamatis and Antonis studying chemists–oenologists and Tasos economics to run our small business.

Practically, the history of Mylonas brothers begins in 2000 when, after the loss of our father, we took over the responsibility to follow the steps and evolve what he made, even go a step further, as he did when the winery passed from his father and our grandfather Antonis to him.

The result was the creation of a brand new, small, modern winery, the standardization of our wines and our first official presence in the Greek market in 2006 with our trademark being “Savatiano Mylonas Winery”.