Wines

From vines on their own roots.

Our three wines, from indigenous vines in volcanic soil.

The three wines
First leaves on an old vine in the volcanic soil of Vothonas, the wind-bent tree of the label on the horizon

Plate IVFirst leaves on an old vine, the label tree beyond · Vothonas

  1. Santorini · front label
    01Santorini100% AssyrtikoPDO Santorini2025Our estate white is Assyrtiko from our oldest parcels in Vourvoulos and Vothonas, where the vines are between twenty and more than a hundred years old and grow in pumice, black ash and red stone.The wine
  2. Potamos · front label
    02Potamos100% MandilariaPGI Cyclades2017Potamos is our red, made from Mandilaria, one of the oldest red grapes of the Cyclades, grown on our ungrafted vines in volcanic soil and aged for two years in French oak.The wine
  3. Vinsanto · front label
    03VinsantoSun-dried dessert winePDO Santorini2020Vinsanto is Santorini's sun-dried wine, made as it has always been.The wine
Kalliston · Santorini

How we make them

From the vine to the bottle, in five stages.

    • Picked by hand
    • Low kouloura vines
    • Ungrafted old vines
    • Whole clusters, pressed
    • Free-run juice
    • Native yeasts
    • The canava, cut into the rock
    • The temperature of the cave
    • Out of the light and heat
    • Time on the lees
    • Texture, slowly
    • As little as possible
    • Blended by taste
    • Led by the wine
    • No recipe
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Kalliston

Messaria, Santorini · The first wine, 1922

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Supported by Greece and the European UnionDevelopment Agency of Cyclades S.A., European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, Hellenic Republic, LEADER, Rural Development Programme 2014 to 2020, and ESPA 2014 to 2020. Co-funded by Greece and the European Union.