Art Space Art Gallery - Winery - Museum

This guide to Art Space in Exo Gonia, Santorini follows a pumice cave dug around 1830 to process the island's tomatoes, then handed over to the Argyros family for wine in 1861. It traces how the family pressed grapes here by gravity alone for nearly a century, why Nikolaos Argyros walked away from the cave in 1952 to help found a much larger winery, and how the 1956 earthquake left the tunnels holding nothing but old equipment and dust for decades. The cave's depth, eight meters at the entrance and eleven at its far end, is what let it age wine without any machinery at all.