Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum

If anyone wants to know the history of wine at Santorini has only to visit the Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum.

An old one hemp (a cave warehouse), 8 meters below the ground that extends to a length of 300 meters, in the shape of a labyrinth, presents the history of wine and the life of the Santorini viticulturist from 1660 to 1970. With representations of movable and immovable dummies, automatic personal online tour in fourteen languages ​​the visitor browses the history of wine.

Along the way in properly designed caves (old warehouses) are exposed with an excellent aesthetic presentation and a sound audio historical documentation, all stages of wine production. From pruning the vineyard, plowing, harvesting, to weighing and pressing the grapes, cleaning the tanks, making the barrels, distilling the raki, loading the boats for export, and all this among tools , utensils and rare machines.

The creation of the wine museum It took 21 years of hard work and the funding came entirely from the Koutsogiannopoulos family. A fascinating travel experience full of performances, information and stories from the world of wine, the world of Santorini.

The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum has created perhaps the best representation of Greek traditional winemaking.

And of course the modern Koutsogiannopoulos winery It also has to offer the full range of of Santorini wines.