WINE MUSEUM: SANTORINI, GREECE

Enjoy The Wine Museum & The Wine Tastings!

" The Santorini Wine Museum "

The Wine Museum
Santorini, Greece

Being the only one of its kind in Greece, the Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum occupies a natural cave. It is eight meters below ground, 300 meters long and has a labyrinth-like shape. The Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum presents the history of wine and the life of vine-growers in Santorini since the 1600s.  It took twenty-one years of hard work, patience and perseverance to create the wine museum. This endeavor was funded entirely by the Koutsoyannopoulos family, who created the museum out of its love and passion for tradition and wine. Now as fourth-generation winemakers, the family is still proud to continue the tradition of producing high quality wines. 

During the tour, we had the opportunity to see representations of the history of wine. 

The stages of the winemaking process and the whole range of machinery are presented in chronological order. We were able to learn about the stages of pruning and ploughing of the vineyards, harvesting ,stomping and weighing of the grapes. We were taken back in time to another era through the rare exhibits: including winemaking machinery and tools. "The whole range of tools , vessels and machinery are genuine and rare pieces, which have been valued greatly by past generations of the Koutsoyannopoulos family through years of use". 

After the wine museum tour, it was time to taste some of the vineyards delicious wines! We were able to taste four of the best wines that the  Koutsoyannopoulos Winery  currently produces. 

The Koutsoyannopoulos Winery produces a variety of wines that are distinguished into young or aged white wines, young or aged red wines, rosé, semisweet and sweet wines:

Aged White Wine:

Aged White Wine - Nychteri

Young White Wine:

Young White Wine - Assyrtikos
Young White Wine - Agali
Young White Wine - Lava

Rosé:

Rosé - Physalis
Rosé - Lava

Aged Red Wine:

Aged Red Wine - Ampelones

Young Red Wine:

Young Red Wine - Agali
Young Red Wine - Lava

Semi-sweet & Sweet Wine:

Semi-sweet Wine - Mezzo
Sweet - Kamaritis
Sweet - Vinsanto
Sweet - Vinsanto Special 2002
Sweet - Vinsanto 1959

We were able to keep the memory of traveling into the past alive!

Lots Of Love,

Nicole & Anthony