Early Deadline
30 Nov 2024
Judging
Date
24 & 25 March 2025
Winners Announcement
22 April 2025
30 Nov 2024
24 & 25 March 2025
22 April 2025
Assyrtiko / Assyrtico
Vintage 2022
96 Points
Malagousia / Malagoussia
Vintage 2022
88 Points
Fileri
Vintage 2022
84 Points
Moschofilero / Moscophilero
Vintage 2022
82 Points
Agiorgitiko
Vintage 2020
81 Points
Trebbiano / Ugni blanc
Vintage 2022
81 Points
Fileri
Vintage 2022
77 Points
Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 2022
72 Points
Agiorgitiko
Vintage 2022
71 Points
Roditis / Rhoditis
Vintage 2022
71 Points
The history of the Lafazanis Winery began in 1946, when Vasilis Lafazanis started crafting wine in Piraeus. In 1960, the Lafazanis family established its first privately-owned winery in Magoula, Attica. In 1985, the family’s second generation, with its academic education on oenology, its experience, and its vision, laid the foundations for a high-quality, state-of-the-art winery. Ever since that time, armed with its implicit faith in the fruits of Greek viticulture, the Lafazanis Winery works seamlessly to cultivate grape varieties native to Greece and produce superb quality wines. In 1993, faithfully keeping to that perspective, Spyros Lafazanis took the initiative to establish an even more advanced winery in the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Nemea zone. By showcasing Agiorgitiko and many other domestic and international grape varieties, Spyros Lafazanis crafted new wines of exquisite quality that reflect the company’s flawless know-how and the region’s enormous potential for top quality. In 2005, in order to achieve a more seamless operation, the company decided to separate its commercial activities from its winemaking pursuits and move its commercial sector to Magoula, Attica, under the management of Georgios Lafazanis. The company’s winegrowing and winemaking sector remained in Nemea. For a variety of reasons, in 2008, the company’s two sectors went their separate ways. Spyros Lafazanis remained at the Nemea winery and continued perfecting it. In 2012, the winery began production of pomace distillates with the emphasis placed on tsipouro crafted from pomace originating in the Peloponnese’s most celebrated grape varieties. During that same year, a warehouse and distribution center opened its doors in Elefsina, Attica, to offer customers improved turnaround times and facilitate its distribution activities throughout Greece. Quite recently, Spyros Lafazanis proceeded to acquiring “NESTOR“, the Messinia winemaking cooperative! In 2016, the family’s third generation made a dynamic entrance in the Lafazanis company: Athena Lafazani became Head of the company’s Commercial Department and Vassilis Lafazanis, a most promising viticulturist and oenologist, joined the winery’s winemaking team. Today, the Lafazanis Winery produces inspired wines by virtue of its advanced technology, of its expert and seasoned staff, and of the charismatic Peloponnesian land that surrounds it!