The story began quietly some decades ago. At the time, the variety was virtually unknown in Greece and nearly extinct. But everything changed in the mid-70s, when Professor of Oenology Vassilis Logothetis \u201cdiscovered\u201d it in the region of\u00a0Nafpaktia,<\/strong>\u00a0west central Greece, and presented it to one of his students,\u00a0Vangelis Gerovassiliou.<\/strong>\u00a0The winemaker from Thessaloniki was the first to begin experimental vinification with the grape, initially at the\u00a0Porto Carras winery<\/em>\u00a0and later on his own estate.<\/p>\r\n