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Notes from Marina

Wine notes, producer visits and off-season arguments, written by Marina Spyrou-Veneris — who started the journal in 2018 mostly so that Yannis would have something to disagree with.

Recent letters

Tinos in a glass: T-Oinos Clos Stegasta 2022 · 14.04.2026

Granite, wind, and a vineyard that should not work. What the 2022 is doing now, what it will do in three years, and which fish on the board it makes sense against tonight.

Why the kitchen closes when the last lemon is gone · 06.03.2026

An argument about closing times that Yannis has now won fifteen seasons in a row, set down in writing so that it can be lost properly at least once.

Thirty-eight by the glass is a stupid idea · 12.01.2026

It costs more than it earns and we keep doing it. The case for a wide pour list on a small island, written after a bad week of oxidised bottles.

The cellar, in numbers Marina quotes often

2018Journal started
140Bins she maintains
92%From the islands
6Winter producer visits a year