Santorini: A Good Place for Wine

We visited a winery today, Santo Wines. The owner of our hotel, Yorgos, recommeded it. Santorini has a flourishing wine business. Apparently, the ashy grey soil is extremely fertile, and doesn't need much water (obviously because it never rains here I'm told!) Yorgos has given us huge cucumbers from his garden, and says that all their vegetation is able to grow without water because the soil is so fertile and because they get moisture from the sea. As I said before in an earlier post, when we first arrived on the island, Yorgos gave us some of his wine that he makes himself...I think this is a common thing for the islanders to do (make homemade wine). It sort of jolted us at first because it is extrememly sweet, but we're used to it now. We've been stocking our fridge with bottles of Santorini wine all during our stay :) The grape growing season lasts only one month, in August. I'm not sure how that compares to the grape season of somewhere in Napa or in Italy...


Anyway, we took a tour of the factory and of course did a few tastings. The wines were very beautiful, we enjoyed it very much. A very famous wine of theirs is called Vinsanto, and it's a very sweet wine...it was delicious! The winery is set right on the sea, so you know what that means: more beautiful scenery plus wine! Bella!

Santo Wines

Ah, wine!

With my Vinsanto

Wasn't expecting to find wine vineyards in Greece, but there you have it!