This is what good wine from the Xynisteri grape tastes like

Xynisteri is the most widely planted white grape of Cyprus. Xynisteri wines are fresh and taut - you can often recognize citrus and green apple in them. The best Xynisteri wines are made from the higher-altitude vineyards on Cyprus.

Check out our wines made from Xynisteri grapes

Xynisteri accounts for nearly a quarter of Cyprus's white wine. Almost all of the roughly fifty boutique wineries on the island make a Xynisteri wine. These are almost always fresh, with citrus in the flavor and not too alcoholic. Occasionally Xynisteri gets a (short) oak aging. Especially from the island's highest vineyards, Xynisteri can produce fairly complex wines, with tension and minerality.

Together with Mavro, Xynisteri is also an important ingredient for Cyprus's ancient, sweet specialty: Commandaria. That is a very complex, intensely sweet wine made from dried grapes - a quality wine for eight hundred years already.

We currently have five wines made from the Xynisteri grape in our range. You can view our Xynisteri wines here.