Sambartas Single Vineyard Range 2025

The labels of the Single Vineyard Range, designed for Zambartas winery are inspired by, and a reference for “the hands of the Cypriots” in the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Cesnola Collection comprises over 6,000 artifacts that span the Bronze Age to late antiquity, including terra cottas, stone carvings, glass, jewelry, and inscriptions from Cyprus. All items were excavated from the Cyprus under the supervision of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, U.S. Consul to Cyprus and later the MET’s first director. Today, the collection is considered one of the world’s most significant holdings of ancient Cypriot art.
Among its most intriguing objects are fragmentary sculpted hands. These detached parts of statues or votive offerings were perhaps once integral to divine or funerary imagery. Modest in size yet powerful in meaning, they offer intimate insight into ancient artistic gestures, craftsmanship, and symbolic representation.
Every bottle of wine produced carries more than the flavour of the land, it carries the story of Cyprus. Just as the ancient sculptors shaped stone and terracotta into expressive forms, hands that offered fruit, vessels, or blessings, Zambartas shapes their wines as a living expression of the same heritage. The Cesnola Collection at The Metropolitan Museum preserves these timeless gestures, reminders of how deeply art, land, and people are intertwined.
Zambartas wines are born of the same soil that nurtured those traditions. By honouring the past through artistic expression, each wine label is connected not only to the vineyards of today but also to the enduring spirit of Cyprus, where craftsmanship, generosity, and history meet.