General information
| Destination |
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| Santorini, Greece |
Program details
This guided tour will take you to the winery (from the grape containers to the aging facilities), will offer you a video projection about the wine history of Santorini, a presentation and a tasting of six wines, accompanied with traditional products from Santorini (capers, tomato paste, sun-dried tomatoes), and a cheese variety from the nearby islands (kefalotiri and graviera from Ios, graviera from Naxos and Cretan graviera.)
SantoWines, being environmentally conscious, has built the winery in 5 different levels so that the building is in harmony with the surrounding environment and the vineyards that are spreading out in different ground levels forming the traditional “pezoules”. From a technological point of view, the winery is built in different levels so that during the winemaking process the must is transferred by the gravity phenomenon with the minimum use of pumps, technique that protects and promotes the quality of the wines.
SantoWines winery, situated at Pyrgos village, welcomes every year more than 400.000 visitors from all over the world. This winery, which operates since 1992, is sited on the edge of Caldera, in the middle of Santorini vineyard. It is of 5000 tons capacity.
Meeting/pick-up point: Hotel pick-up.
Duration: Two hours.
Start/opening time: To be locally arranged with the customer.
Languages: English.
Others: Winetasting of 6 different wines included.
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