Wine Day!

In a crazy turn of events there was a cancellation for the wine tour I really wanted to go on, so I snapped up the opportunity to go!

We visited three wineries and the tour guide is a sommelier, I couldn't ask for more, you could tell that he was very passionate about wine! There are 8 wineries on the island of Santorini and it seems that every square inch of Santorini is covered with wine plants from family vines to "make your own" wine to the large estate wineries. With the tour we visited three wineries.

The first winery I visited was the Gavalas Winery. We were able to see the machines and barrels at this winery. It is also the only winery that makes Vinsanto the old-fashion way... Yup they stomp the grapes with their feet! Vinsanto is a very sweet wine... The leave the grapes out for 12 to 14 days (6 to 7 days if they are making Vinsanto Mezzo) so they start to look like raisins and then they press them.

On the way to the next winery we stopped to see the vines up close. The basket Wine growing strategy was very interesting... Plus I got my photo taken with a wine :)

We the went to Estate Argyros which was my favourite winery (and I suspect our guides favourite too) and we tried several wines. I really enjoyed the Ktima Argyros Assyrtiko so I bought a bottle. Sadly, I didn't like the award winning wine (apparently one of the top 24 wines in the world in it's category.)

We then went to Domaine Sigalas, we tried only three wines, another Assyrtiko (which I liked and bought a bottle.) I was very surprised on how good the red wine was but I soon learned that they imported the grapes from mainland Greece. While the wine were very good, I felt a bit like I was cheating on the Santorini grapes.

Anna wasn't up for the wine tour so she spent the day at the black beach. Another beautiful day in Santorini!

We met up late afternoon and we had an awesome dinner at the place we went last night. We had some old favourites like the white eggplant with tomatoes and cheese, fava dip and Greek salad but we also tried spicy feta dip and meatballs.

Early night tonight and tomorrow we leave for Athens (hopefully we can leave no problem!) where we will try to see the Acropolis early because I'm all set to leave the following day!