Estate Argyros
Family winery weaving ungrafted, centuries-old vines into wind-braided baskets on volcanic soil.
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This guide to Estate Argyros in Santorini starts with the kouloura, the low basket-woven vine shape growers have coiled by hand here for two centuries, and the odd fact that many of these vines have never been grafted onto other rootstock. It traces how the island's ashy soil kept the phylloxera louse away when it wiped out vineyards across Europe, and follows four generations of the Argyros family, from founder George in 1903 to his great-grandson Matthaios today. No tractor fits between the rows, so mules still plough this vineyard by hand.
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