Farewell Haridimos Hatzidakis
The Greek wine world was shocked yesterday when terrible news of Haridimos Hatzidakis loss spread quickly through social media.
Hatzidakis, one of the top producers of Santorini and a leading light for Greek wine left prematurely this world during the harvest 2017 that started few days ago. I first met him during the visit of the Institute of Masters of Wine in Greece four years ago and I was impressed by his passion for making great and more importantly authentic wine. His favourite vineyard had to be Mylos where I took the picture above. Just few days ago I interviewed him about the health of Assyrtiko grapes and how the extremely hot conditions of June had affected them.
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