This is what good wine from the Dafni grape tastes like

White wine made from the Greek Dafni grape comes from Crete and has a distinctive aroma of laurel, pine needles, and rosemary. That is, if you can find it, because there are only a handful of producers making Dafni wine.

The Dafni grape could very well be one of the oldest grape varieties in the world. The words "Dafnitos oinos," or Dafnitos grapes, have been found on wine amphorae dating back a thousand years to the Common Era. Whether these amphorae actually contained wine from the grape we now call Dafni, we will, of course, never know.

The Dafni grape is rare these days. It originates from Crete, where it was nearly extinct a few decades ago. Winemaker Lyrarakis saved it. He has been making wine from it for years and actively cultivates it. His Dafni grape has a distinctive aroma, reminiscent of laurel, among other things. It's no coincidence that Dafni actually means "laurel" in Greek.