Unpolished

Xinomavro — the name means 'acid-black' in Greek — is one of the world's most demanding and rewarding grapes. From the highlands of Naoussa and Amyndeon, it produces wines of fierce structure: high tannin, high acid, and a perfume that shifts over years from fresh tomato and olive to leather and spice. Comparisons to Nebbiolo or Barolo are inevitable. Yet Xinomavro is its own thing entirely: unmistakably Greek, tied to a landscape and tradition that most of the world has not yet discovered. Unpolished honours this: the woman who does not perform refinement. She is tannin and acid and time, and she rewards the patient.

Every WiWwaW portrait begins not with a canvas or a lens but with a moodboard — a private, intuitive assembly of words, colours, textures and images that together form the wine's character translated into a woman. The moodboard for Unpolished travels with the finished work to its collector: a window into the creative process, a second layer of the work itself.