Summer Salad with Dades and Almonds paired with Zambartas Rose
I discovered this salad a few years ago in one of my favorite cooking books* and it quickly became a ‘regular’ on the Zambartas’ family table. It is a perfect…
A Winemaker’s Wife – Australia in our heart!
The visit of our Australian friends last week to Cyprus, threw Marcos and I back in time 10 years (!), to the place where our story started. Down under, between…
Wild boars, a city girl and a big appetite for learning the craft! – Meet this year’s interns at Zambartas
This year our vintage team is joined by Marie Tabar, 3rd year student of Enology at SupAgro Montpellier and Natalia Kataiftsi, who just finished her masters in Viticulture & Enology in…
Winemaker’s Wife, “Winemaker’s Widow?”
August started and it seems the whole of Europe is on holidays. I receive pictures from all my friends on the beach, sightseeing and relaxing… From the moment I met…
Winemaker’s wife -‘Apricot Walnut Lavender Cake’
The season of stonefruits started in Cyprus, a mark for the start of summer! I personally love all stone fruits; apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines… They are a source of antioxidants,…
Winemaker’s Wife – The story of the New Single Vineyard label
A modern and easily distinguishable label. Different from the Zambartas Range, and at the same time in line with our characteristic style. Something that expresses the vineyard. The soil. The…
The Winemaker’s Story of the Xynisteri Single Vineyard 2017
The Vineyard The vineyard was planted in Spring of 1989; at a moment that I was a young boy, probably not too eager to return to primary school in Nicosia…
Vintage at Zambartas – ‘A tower of Babel’?
If you walk into our cellar during the harvest period, you are entering a happy but noisy place. There is always some machinery working. The press might be finishing it…
A Winemaker’s Wife Blog – ‘The grapegrower’
Her eyes squeezed against the bright sunlight. Her hair was covered with a scarf, her face full of deep lines from age and years of work in the fields. Her…
A winemaker’s wife
I have been contemplating for a long while about starting a blog, and decided that with the launch of our new website, the time has come to finally pick up…
The rediscovery of Cyprus’ grape varieties
Akis Zambartas, during his career as Oenologist in KEO, re-discovered 12 native Cypriot grape varieties. During the 3 year long pioneering research, Akis discovered, recorded, planted and vinified these varieties.…
‘We must strive to be young as a Beaujolais and grow old like a Burgundy.’
This year our vintage team was joined by Morphee Besseau, 2nd year student of Enology & Marketing at Bordeaux University and Jade Godmuse, student of food technology and applicant at…