Drama & Kavala Hidden Wine Trail

Drama & Kavala Hidden Wine Trail

In 42 BC, the Roman Republic died on a plain near Philippi when Brutus and Cassius fell. Then around 50 AD, Paul preached the first Christian sermon on European soil on the exact same ground. Both events traceable to the same archaeological square. Ktima Pavlidis harvests grapes at 3am because the cool Thracian nights produce Loire-like acidity nobody expects from Greece. In 1979, Costa Lazaridis planted Assyrtiko — a Santorini grape — in continental Drama and was called mad. Thirteen years later he built the winery that sparked Greece's highest-average-price region.