This is a very old red double-use variety of vine (for winemaking and for the table), with polyclonal composition. The variety is occasionally cultivated mainly in the vineyards of Heraklion and Chania prefectures and secondarily in the prefecture of Rethymno.

It is a dynamic, moderately robust, and productive variety. The grape bunches are medium to large, with grapes also medium to large, and oval in shape. Its name is associated with Akoumia, a village in the province of Agios Vasilios, Rethymno. The village and the name probably are associated with the Byzantine family of Komnenos which, according to the tradition, was one of the families which settled down in Crete (with twelve noble children) during the 2nd Byzantine period.

This variety was detected in archaeobotanical remnants (according to the oral testimony of the excavator) of a Protopalatial settlement in the south of the prefecture of Rethymno.