Ouzo Plomariou Isidorou Arvanitou

At Plain of Plagia, about 4 km before we reach Plomari, are on our left the imposing facilities from the famous Ouzo Plomariou Isidorou Arvanitou, the most famous and beloved Greek Ouzo.

Our arrival at the distillery was accompanied by the legend of the impressive course of a historic of Plomari distillery, small in size, but which managed after its acquisition by the family of Nikos Kalogiannis in 1993, to become the ouzo market leader and have sales in more than 40 countries with exports accounting for 58,5% of production.

In an elegant room in the new distillery we were informed about the history but also about the modern achievements of the company. With a clever combination of two projection screens - in one to "narrate" Isidoros Arvanitis and in the other to describe the history of ouzo and company - we learn things and things.

We learn the ways of production, its role anise by Lisvori - located at a distance of 3,5 km from the shores of the bay Beauty - and where the Ouzo Plomariou cultivates in privately owned lands because he considers it the best in the country, but also some elements of the recipe (soft water from the sources of the river Sedounta, fennel from Northern Evia, asteroids, cinnamon, nutmeg, extracts of Chios mastic, various other herbs Lesbian land and salt from the salt pans of Kalloni, Lesvos). The ratio of the above ingredients is of course secret, as is the recipe left by Isidoros Arvanitis.

Η visit to the distillery It was an impressive experience. On the one hand double distillation 100% with the 18 small traditional distillers and, on the other hand, the most modern in production methods there could be (four bottles, in fact one 120 meters, continuous quality controls electronic and physical) something we saw in our tour of production sites. In this way the production is done as it would be done in any traditional distillery, but the bottling and standardization in extra modern conditions with hundreds of quality controls daily.

All this, that is, the company's obsession with the production of ouzo according to secret recipe of Isidoros Arvanitis, the quality of the raw materials, the use of the most modern technologies in terms of bottling, but also the quality controls, contributed (I am also crazy about the bottle with the cork) so that the Ouzo Plomari distillery Isidoros Arvanitis of the Nikos Kalogiannis family, a 100% Greek company, to be its pride Lesbos and in addition to its own success, to open the streets of ouzo to the whole world.

The distillery celebrating 120 years in 2015 opened to the general public, is now open daily and the visitor can live a unique experience in "World of Ouzo”Through an organized tour accompanied by tastings.