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📍 Macedonia (Greece)

Appellation ✔ Checked: 10.2026 · sources: 6 Updated:

Northern Greece, home of Xinomavro.

Macedonia is a historic area in northern Greece and the country's main red-wine zone. It has mountains, lakes, fertile plains and the coast of the Aegean Sea. The climate is transitional: warm by the sea, cool in the mountains, with snow in winter. Its centre is the city of Thessaloniki.

The best-known grape of Macedonia is Xinomavro (“sour black”), a red grape giving wines with high acidity, tannins and scents of red berries, olives and spice. The best of these are Naoussa, Amyndeon and Goumenissa. Naoussa makes serious wines that age well. In Amyndeon, at about 600 to 700 metres, Xinomavro goes into rosé and sparkling wines. White grapes include Malagousia, Assyrtiko and others.

Macedonia includes zones such as Halkidiki, Drama, Imathia, Pella, Pieria, Florina, Kavala, Serres and the island of Thasos. Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain, where monks have made wine for many centuries, also lies here. In recent decades many wineries have been making modern wines of international standard.

For comparison with its neighbours: to the south lies Thessaly with Mount Olympus, to the east Thrace, and to the north across the border North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

On the map: Macedonia (Greece)

What it includes

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How it connects to Wine

📍 Macedonia (Greece) ← grows in ← 🍇 Moschomavro → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine

Part of
🗺️ Greek wine
Related to
Greece: 📜 Imathia, 📜 Thessaloniki, 📜 Kastoria, 📜 Pella, 📜 Pieria, 📜 Slopes of Paiko, 📜 Florina, 📜 Mount Athos, 📜 Velvento, 📜 Epanomi
and 9 more📜 Kavala, 📜 Nea Mesimvria, 📜 Pangeon, 📜 Serres, 📜 Siatista, 📜 Grevena, 📜 Thasos, 📜 Kozani, 📜 Slopes of Vertiskos
Grapes
🍇 Moschomavro, 🍇 Malagousia, 🍇 Xinomavro, 🍇 Assyrtiko
Main grapes
🍇 Xinomavro, 🍇 Malagousia, 🍇 Assyrtiko, 🍇 Limnio
Wines
🍷 Red wine, 🍷 White wine, 🍷 Rosé, 🍷 Still wine
Olive cultivars
🫒 Chalkidiki (olive)

Frequently asked questions

What is the main grape of Macedonia?

The red Xinomavro, “sour black”. It gives wines with high acidity and tannins.

Which well-known zones are in Macedonia?

Naoussa, Amyndeon, Goumenissa, Drama, Halkidiki and others.

What is Amyndeon?

A high-altitude zone where Xinomavro goes into rosé and sparkling wines.

What to read next

  • 📜 Florina — Local wines from mountainous Florina, next to Amyntaio.
  • 🫒 Chalkidiki (olive) — A Greek cultivar of northern Greece with very large fruit; about a quarter of Greek table-olive groves.
  • 🍇 Limnio — An ancient red Greek grape from the island of Lemnos.
  • 🍷 Still wine — Ordinary wine without carbon dioxide bubbles.
  • 📜 Epanomi — A coastal zone south of Thessaloniki where the white Malagousia grape was revived.

Similar

📍 Thrace (Greece) · 📍 Thessaly · 📍 Epirus · 📍 Crete · 📍 Peloponnese · 📍 Halkidiki

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