Santorini's volcanic soil and a Bavarian founder's cellar frame Greek wine as this plate records it. Santo Wines pours Santorini Assyrtiko and Vinsanto wines under cooperative ownership on Santorini. Achaia Clauss was founded in 1861 by Bavarian Gustav Clauss. Venetsanos Winery opened as Santorini's first industrially built winery above the caldera. Vinsanto is sweet and dense; taste it after the dry Assyrtiko rather than before, or the dry wine will taste of nothing.
Food hall and hotel — Greek artisan producers under one roof: cheese, charcuterie, wine, olive oil. Eat at the restaurant or buy to take home. The future of Greek food retail.
Best for Greek artisan cheese, charcuterie, wine, and olive oil under one roof — eat in or take home.
Chemical engineer Vassilis Seitanidis and his wife, Athens-trained oenologist Haroula Tyriakidou, planted certified-organic vines on Mount Pangaion above Kavala in 1995, at roughly 300 meters elevation. Their 80-hectare estate now bottles Assyrtiko and Moschomavro alongside Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, including a natural orange wine.
Best for Organic Pangaion mountain wines and natural orange wine
This multi-floor concept store is devoted to Greek gastronomy, bringing artisanal producers together under one roof. Olive oil, cheese, honey, wine and deli goods fill its floors.
A family winery in Dafnes southwest of Heraklion working indigenous Cretan grapes such as Vidiano, Vilana and Liatiko across its Dafnios and Enotria labels. The estate also presses extra virgin olive oil and runs cellar wine and oil tastings.
Best for Cretan indigenous-variety wines and tastings
Founded by brothers Manolis and Sotiris Lyrarakis in 1966 and based at Alagni southeast of Heraklion, this winery is known for reviving near-extinct Cretan varieties including Dafni, Plyto and Melissaki. Now run by the second generation and farmed organically since 2020, it bottles single-vineyard wines from more than eleven local grapes.
Best for Rare-variety Cretan wines and vineyard tastings
This historic family winery sits in the mountain village of Embonas, making Rhodian wines from both local and international grape varieties. Tastings and bottles are available at the source.
This family estate in Paradisi makes wine, extra virgin olive oil and distillates alongside local honey and ceramics. Visitors can tour the vineyards, sit down to tastings or join hands-on cooking experiences.
This small Embonas winery bottles limited quantities from Greek varieties like Athiri, Assyrtiko and Muscat, alongside international grapes. Guided tastings walk you through the range.
Best for Boutique Rhodes wines and guided tastings
Founded in 1861 by Bavarian Gustav Clauss, Achaia Clauss is a Greek winery making Mavrodaphne of Patras, still ageing 1873 barrels in its Imperial Cellar. Visitors tour the stone winecastle and old oak casks and taste at the historic Cava Danielis.
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Founded in 1961 by around 500 local vine-growers cultivating the Moschato Tyrnavou grape, this cooperative distills the tsipouro and ouzo of Tyrnavos alongside PGI wines and Retsina. Special bottlings include tsipouro aged in oak, infused with saffron, or flavored with mastic, all sourced from the growers' own 900 hectares of vineyards.
Best for Tyrnavos tsipouro and Moschato Tyrnavou wine
Six kilometres from Corfu Town at Karoumpatika, Ambelonas is a working hillside vineyard where owner-chef Vasiliki Karounou pours house wine and cooks traditional Corfiot dishes. Alongside tastings and cooking classes, its shop sells the estate's own wine and local Acordo products.
Andreas Dourakis founded this boutique winery in his home village of Alikampos in 1988 after training in Germany, and it works organically grown grapes including Vidiano and Kotsifali. The family estate produces whites, reds, roses and sparkling and dessert wines, with tours and tastings year-round.
Best for Boutique Cretan wines and cellar tastings
Kritamon, in Chania's old Venetian harbour at Kondilaki 38, sells olive-wood items such as bowls, spoons, bracelets and photo-frames alongside hand-painted ceramics in the Greek Folk Art style. It also stocks Pamako olive oil, honey from the Toplou Monastery and wines from Cretan producers including Karavitaki, Manousaki and Lyraraki.
Ktima Akrani grows its own vineyard at Miniera on the foothills of Mount Dikaios and vinifies both indigenous Greek varieties and international grapes into three distinct wine lines, including an Asyrtiko-blend range called Akrani. Visitors taste in a purpose-built cellar overlooking Kalymnos and Pserimos, pairing flights with other Kos and Dodecanese products.
Best for Estate wine tastings above the Kos coastline
Ted Manousakis planted this organic estate on the hills above Vatolakkos in 1993 out of nostos, the longing to come home to Crete, and his daughter Alexandra has run it since 2007. The winery farms Rhone varieties such as Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre and Roussanne and bottles them under the Nostos label.
Best for Organic Rhone-variety Cretan wines under the Nostos label
Run by the Union of Santorini Cooperatives, this Pyrgos winery presses the island's Assyrtiko, Athiri and Vinsanto grapes and bottles Santorini staples like fava, cherry-tomato products and olive oil under its SantoTaste label. Its wine tourism center looks out over the caldera.
Best for Santorini Assyrtiko and Vinsanto wines and local food products
Theotoky Estate farms organically in central Corfu, producing estate wines and olive oil and opening its grounds for tastings. The property also keeps a small museum and library that reflect the estate's long history.
Venetsanos was Santorini's first industrially built winery, carved into the caldera cliff and producing Assyrtiko, Nykteri and Vinsanto. Visitors come for tastings, tours, a wine museum and views over the caldera.
Best for Caldera-view wine tasting, Vinsanto and Assyrtiko