Sauvignon Blanc is a noble white wine-making variety cultivated in the Loire and Bordeaux regions of France since the 17th century.

Cabernet Sauvignon is the most famous French red grape variety; it is considered “the king of red varieties”

Tachtas is a very old variety, native to the Cretan vineyard. After the 1950s it was used as a table wine variety, as well as for the production of high quality raisins (elemedes).

Vilana is a white variety of polyclonal winemaking composition, cultivated for a long time mainly in the prefecture of Heraklion (5,000,000 sq. m).

This is a very old red double-use variety of vine (for winemaking and for the table), with polyclonal composition.

A red winemaking variety is cultivated since many years almost exclusively in the prefecture of Chania, in an expanse of approximately 11,500.000 sq. m, i.e. 80-85% of the total area of the prefecture’s vineyards.

Moschato Spinas is a white early variety with a characteristic aroma. Moschato, one of the oldest varieties in Greece, is cultivated everywhere the country (in Chrysopigi Pyrgou with the Cretan-Venetian winepresses, the location name Moschata still exists) and especially in Samos, producing the fine sweet Samos wine.

Mantilari is one of the oldest Greek varieties, native to the Cretan vineyard, polyclonal, which exists in almost all the wine-growing regions of Greece (in 7 of the 11 wine-growing regions) with various synonyms and variations.

References to Malvasia vines have been discovered in contracts of the 14th and 16th centuries, and they are also described in texts by medieval historians.

Liatiko variety is cultivated on 30,000,000 sq.m (as indicated by data of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food since 2015).