Gavalas Winery

This guide to Gavalas Winery in Megalochori, Santorini traces five generations of a family growing Assyrtiko on volcanic soil while merchants bottled and sold their wine under other names. It follows the 1973 Athens shop where the Gavalas family started selling directly under its own name, and the decades it then took to bring the actual bottling home to this small stone canava. You'll also hear why the ash beneath these vines spared them a pest that devastated vineyards elsewhere in Europe.