Kedros, Crete 650 metres First vintage 2025
Wine, caught
at its moment.
Kairos — the Greek word for the opportune moment, the right time. A small parcel of vines in the Kedros mountains of southern Crete, worked by hand, made without addition, bottled in tiny quantities.
Place
The vineyard sits inland from the south coast of Crete, on the slope of Mount Soros in the Kedros range.
At six hundred and fifty metres the days warm slowly and the nights stay cold. The southern light is direct; the mountain air is dry. Grapes hang long, keep their acid, take their time.
Just under an acre. Roughly two hundred and forty vines planted a decade ago to Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot. Organic since the day they went in the ground. No synthetic anything. The neighbour's olives shade the eastern boundary.
Practice
Nothing added. Nothing taken away.
Hand-picked early. Destemmed, lightly crushed, fermented on the skins with the yeast that already lives on the fruit. No commercial yeast, no nutrients, no enzymes, no fining, no filtration, no cold stabilisation.
A measured dose of sulphur at bottling — seventeen parts per million, a fraction of conventional levels. Enough to protect the wine on its journey, little enough that the wine still smells like fruit and place.
We accept the trade. The wines will not age forever. They will, in their first years, be exactly what the vintage made.
The 2025 wines
Three records of the same season.
Bottles are scarce
Under a thousand bottles, total.
The 2025 vintage is, in its entirety, around thirty bottles — a true first-year output. The vines are now thirteen years in the ground and the 2026 season is the first that should give a proper harvest. Join the list to hear when wine is available.
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