Santorini Wineries

Santorini is well known in Greece for the quality wines produced here.Big wineries like Boutaris have a large share of the market but also the small ones make a differense like Argyros Estate.

Here is some info about the wineries.
Canava Argiros
Argiros Estate has been producing wine on the island since 1903, and is now run by the third generation of the Argiros family, Matheos Argyros along with his father, Yiannis. When Yiannis took over the winery in 1974 it was primarily a bulk operation, selling wine to whomever would buy the cheap grapes. The early Seventies were a hard time for winery owners on the island, many of whom were seeing that their land was worth more to real estate developers than as productive vineyards, given the burgeoning tourism industry. Rather than selling, however, Yiannis took the opportunity to purchase the best vineyard parcels on the island, and quietly assembled what is now the 55 acre family estate. During this time he also made radical changes to the wine production regimen, reducing yields, modernizing the winemaking technology, and focusing on quality rather than quantity.

The winery now produces some of the best wine on the tiny island, and is known especially for its Vin Santo, which is aged for 14 years (the current release is 1984), and is topped up, solera-style with a little wine from new vintages every year. According to some, this is Greece's most sought-after dessert wine.

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