Gold package
This tour is a great chance for every wine lover to visit the best wineries of the island, and try tasty Santorini wines.
This tour includes three differed wineries. In each winery you gonna have a chance to try 4 different, local wines. Small snacks are included (chocolate, crackers, cheese).
Starting point: your hotel
Cruise passengers: the meeting point for the tour is at the cable car’s exit in Fira town. Your guide will be waiting for you there, holding a sign with your name.
Duration: 3h
Price: 1-2 people 3-4 people 4+ people- ask for the price!
Languages: english, latvian
Included:
✓ transportation with a private car,
✓ private tour guide services,
✓ entrance fees in wineries,
✓ bottle of water,
✓ phone charging.
Not included:
⊘ any meal or personal expenses,
⊘ children under 5 years old will not reserve a seat on the car. They will sit on parents' lap,
⊘ tickets for the cable car if you arrive with a cruise ship (€6 for a one-way ticket),
⊘ not wheelchair accessible.
⊘ tips for the tour guide.
We will start our tour with a visit to Koutsogiannopoulos winery - wine museum.
Located on beautiful Santorini, the Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum has everything a visitor would want to know about wine making in one of the most unique places on earth. With the Koutsogiannopoulos family knowledge and historical exhibits, guests will get a glimpse of what life was like as a winemaker here. The museum boasts everything someone would like to know about the wine-making process in an incomparable space, as well as a uniquely designed area for wine tasting. This one of a kind museum happens to be nestled in a cave and, because of its unique position this natural labyrinth is eight meters below ground and 300 meters long. The wine museum presents the history of the wine and the life of the vine-growers in Santorini from 1660 to 1970.
The museum provides automatic audio guides, that are available in 14 languages. After the museum tour, guests are invited to taste four of the family’s best wines in a unique wine-tasting area. Wines are offered accompanied by crackers and chocolate. Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum is a must!
Venetsanos winery is located right above the port of Athinios, overlooking the magnificent caldera of Santorini. The Venetsanos family has a very long tradition of producing wine. Originally was produced for the island and subsequently, it was exported extensively, and particularly to countries such as Russia. It was built in 1947 by the Venetsanos family and became the first industrial winery on the island. Its most distinguishing feature is the structural design, which essentially used gravity, facilitating energy efficiency, at a time when access to electricity and other energy sources was very limited. The winery was built in an unconventional manner constructed from above and moving downwards.
Our last stop gonna be Estate Argyros winery.Estate Argyros is a leading estate of Greece, the premier private vineyard owner on the island of Santorini as well as one of the oldest wine families in the country, continuously producing amazing wines for more than 110 years.
Estate Argyros is the largest private owner of vineyards in Santorini. The current landholdings exceed 120 ha, a vast, four-generations-long investment. The magnitude of this commitment can only be understood only when someone takes into account the fact that, in Santorini, there are numerous, far more lucrative uses of land readily available, and, sadly, more frequently preferred. Estate Argyros vineyards are old, even by Santorini standards. The average vine age exceeds 70 years, while the oldest parcels of the estate are more than two centuries old. The average yields, on a plentiful vintage, rarely gets higher than 21 hl/ha, an impressively, if not catastrophically, low number, matched by very few wines around the world.
