Matthaios Dimopoulos

"This is the worst year we've seen in three decades. There are no grapes. We are in the second year of drought, and the plants cannot survive; the vines have burnt leaves.

The cutting of the first bunch of Assyrtiko on the southern Aegean island of Santorini on August 4 signaled the start of the 2017 wine grape harvest across Greece. The harvest takes roughly three months, ending in late October in the vineyards of northern Greece.