Venetsanos Winery
Four-level cliffside winery engineered to let gravity move wine downhill to the harbor below.
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This guide to Venetsanos Winery in Santorini traces the Cairo fortune of the Venetsanos family, who returned to build a winery above Athinios port designed to run entirely on gravity rather than paying for scarce electricity. You'll meet Georgios, a chemist, and his brother Zannos, a wine merchant, as four levels cut into the caldera cliff moved grapes down toward barrels waiting near the harbor. By 1967 the family was bottling wine under its own name. Stand at the lowest terrace, where the old pipes once carried wine toward the port below.
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