At the entrance to the village of Kilani, one of the most traditional wine villages of Cyprus, stands the neat and stylish Vardalis winery.
In front of it stretches a lovely spacious yard, ideal for wining and parleying in an ecstatically suave Bacchic atmosphere. Standing at the heavy wooden gate of the winery, you cannot resist fixing your eyes on the soul-relaxing expanse of vineyards that, like mosaics, decorate the nearby regions of Limnes and Hardjia.
The winery was bought about a year ago by the Russian businessman Victor Velichko, who has delegated the difficult task of production to the oenologist Sophocles Vlassides.
Sophocles tells me that he has the full and continuous support of the new owner who seems to have absolute confidence in his oenologist. The involvement of this well-known, capable and successful oenologist in the production process constitutes, in my opinion, the most basic safeguard of quality – as the takeover and distance management of a winery, in itself, can guarantee neither quality nor continuation and development.
Source: Cyprus Wine Pages