About 80% of the grapes grown on the islands are wine-making varietals, while the remaining 20% are currant grapes grown mainly on the southern lip of the Palliki peninsula.
The major wine making varietals (in stremma)
ROBOLA 3474
TSAOUSSI 1344
MAVRODAPHNE 1039
VOSTILIDI 292
ZAKYNTHINO 200
MOSCHATO 167
About 90% of the grapes grown on Cephalonia and Ithaca are white varietals. Nevertheless, the tiny quantities of red grapes grown here have generated an increasing amount of interest as a result of their superior quality.
Typically, a large variety of indigenous grapes are grown in the vineyards.
Some of these have become quite rare and may disappear altogether.
To prevent this, the Wine Growers' Association of Cephalonia, in collaboration
with the National Foundation of Agricultural Research – institute to Plant
Conservation Voios, has set up an experimental vineyard at the Vallianos
Agricultural School in Argostoli, in order to preserve these varietals
for the future. So far, 43 varieties have been collected for cataloguing.
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