| Within the natural beauty of this attractive island,
once called Kallisti, businessman, Kostas Antoniou,
revives today a 3,500 year old Cycladic wine tradition
in Megalochori at Santorini.
Following the footsteps of Kyr-Giorgi Venetsanou,
a chemist since 1930, who established the
first winery in Greece, Kostas Antoniou decided
to give life to this land overlooking the Aegean,
the sea praised by Greek poet, Elytis.
He created new spaces for the production and
aging of wines, a hall for artistic events and
concerts, a traditional Greek coffee shop
offering tastes from old times, and a lounge for
exhibitions of jewelry and wine tasting.
And so, the unique groin-vauts on the roofs, the
five different levels of vinification, the undermined
natural fermentation vats, the cool cellars below ground,
the old Radiki made of copper, the stone chimney always
prominently marking the way, and the serpentine
stairway leading to the wine cellars, all contribute
to the revival of unforgettable moments of the past.
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