We're here in Athens Greece we're talking with Yiannis Karakasis.
We are talking about all things Greek wine trying to help our readers and our audience
at SantoriniDave.com to really go beyond and to make more of their trip and their understanding
of their Greek journey Yiannis we were you're an expert in Santorini wineries and Santorini wines
i'm curious maybe you could just sort of throw out five or six different wineries in Santorini
i know you love them all but maybe you could just touch on sort of some differences between them
and throw out five or six that you would encourage people to test okay let's see what i can do um
go for it okay let's see um different styles okay you have the style of a mineral you know very very
crystal clear and precise style like the the style of yeah and Argyros you have a style which
is you know fruitier and rounder which comes from basaltis okay so let's let's clarify that these
are names of wineries so be really yeah i think for our readers who are not familiar with these
names these varieties when you're identifying a winery maybe be specific about which one the names
of the wineries okay so let's do that again we have the the mineral and very crystal clear style
of the wineries of Argyros in yeah winery you have a you know a little bit you know more rounder and
maybe a little bit fruitier style of basaltis you have caramel legos winery which sits in between
uh you have Hatzidakis winery which is a more minimalistic approach a little bit more natural
indigenous yeast on the same approach you have the style of of akra resource i i want to add
also because it is important the style of Santos wine which is the big comparative of Santorini
they have a a diversity of styles usually in a mineral style and to be clear in a visit to
Santorini there are more than 20 wineries some of them there are 20 currently some of them are
big and beautiful and they're on the edge of the caldera and the view is stunning
and they have like Veneztsanos or Santo and they have this gorgeous view and they have food and a
restaurant and lots of people and then at the same time you've got some that are very small
very small production to visit there is to see the vineyards around there give me
a sense of some of the others that you might recognize example if you go to canava caramel
there's no sign you need to call the guys and find your way there so all are heroes
art space is also there some one is under the radar now i just want to point out that every
one of these that you've mentioned are available on our site we've got write-ups about them
we direct people toward wine tours and help people to sort of ease the access and to
understand where they are on the island and what to expect keep going what else comes to mind um
oh of course i i forgot i forgot Sigalas okay that's uh i didn't do that on purpose Sigalas
is a leading lighter in Santorini he started the discussion about premiumization of of the island
and i just want to say that so many of the wineries that you've mentioned are wineries
that we have videos from individually some of them we're talking with the winemakers
some of them we're talking with the owners but we've got lots of great media from many
of the wineries that you just talked about that you'll find on the pages of our site as well as
in our social media. Venetsanos is one of the most historic wineries one of the six original
is centering that has returned now after some decades that was not active so so many things
to do so many wineries to explore great we are hoping to give sort of uh the encouragement uh
to our readers and our audience to visit to yeah when they're in Santorini doing
wine tours tasting Santorini wines it's such a wonderful part of a great Santorini experience
absolutely great it's wonderful to talk with you Yiannis. Yiannis's new book
the wines of Santorini is just out and it's a guide to Santorini wines and wineries and
thank you so much for your time Yiannis thank you if you enjoyed this video please like and
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