The complete island cellar map
Santorini has around a dozen wineries genuinely worth visiting, from the 1836 cellars of Canava Roussos to Therasia's Mikra Thira. This guide compares all 13 — 2026 tasting prices, hours, booking policies, views, and food — maintained by the local family that visits them weekly, with a map and straight answers.
Updated: — prices and hours re-checked against each winery's own listings. Island prices move fast; we re-verify quarterly.
The table that answers the planning questions: what a tasting costs, when doors open, whether you can just show up, and which terraces actually face the caldera.
| Winery | Village | Tastings | Booking | View | Food |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santo Wines | Pyrgos | Flights €18–55; winery tour €12 incl. 2 tastings | booking advised | Caldera | Restaurant |
| Venetsanos Winery | Megalochori | ≈€12–28 basic flights; ≈€50 for 6 wines, €55 with light meal (confirm current list when booking) | booking advised | Caldera | Platters/bites |
| Estate Argyros | Episkopi Gonia | €25 (4 wines) / €40 (6 wines), both with platters — official 2026 rates | booking advised | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Domaine Sigalas | Oia (Baxedes) | Flights €12–30; vineyard tour €100; grand degustation €150 (confirm current menu) | appointment only | Sunset/vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Hatzidakis Winery | Pyrgos Kallistis | €40 (4 wines) / €80 (6 + vineyard walk) / €160 (12 incl. old vintages) — official | appointment only | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Gavalas Winery | Megalochori | ≈€10 (3 wines) / €15 (5) / €20 (7) — recent guide rates; confirm at the door | walk-ins welcome | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Gaia Wines | Vrachies (Kamari–Monolithos beach) | €20 (5 wines) / €30 (7) / €70 premium Assyrtiko + cheese — official 2026 | booking advised | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Artemis Karamolegos | Exo Gonia | Flights ≈€8–20; food-pairing menus ≈€65–140 (confirm current rates) | booking advised | Vineyard | Restaurant |
| Vassaltis Vineyards | Vourvoulos (northeast) | €40 tasting (4 wines + bites); cellar tour €30; lunch €55–90 — official | booking advised | Vineyard | Restaurant |
| Art Space | Exo Gonia | ≈€10 (4 wines) / €20 (8) by recent accounts — no official list; confirm when arranging | appointment only | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Canava Roussos | Mesa Gonia | From ≈€3/sample, ≈€6/glass; a ~€15 four-wine flight reported — confirm at the door | walk-ins welcome | Vineyard | Restaurant |
| Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum | Vothonas | From €30 (Bronze: entry + 4 tastings); Silver €55, Gold €90, premium tiers above — 2026 pricing | walk-ins welcome | Vineyard | Platters/bites |
| Mikra Thira | Potamos, Therasia | €35–50 Experience / €50–65 Volcanic / €130 Cycladic spread — official | appointment only | Caldera | Platters/bites |
The lay of the land
Most cellars cluster on the island's central-southern plain — Pyrgos, Megalochori, and the Gonia villages — within 15 minutes of each other. Outliers earn their distance: Sigalas under Oia, Gaia on the east beach, and Mikra Thira a ferry ride across the caldera.
Schematic map — gold dots mark true caldera views. Tap any dot to open that winery's guide.
Thirteen cellar doors — every bottle below starts in volcanic ash
The full guide
Each profile covers what the listicles skip: current prices, real booking lead times, how long a visit takes, and which of our tours include it. Start with the style of visit you want — grand co-op, family canava, cult cellar, or a ferry adventure.
Nº 01 · Pyrgos
Caldera
Santo Wines is Santorini's grower cooperative — around 1,200 member families since 1947, vinifying roughly half the island's grapes — with a famous caldera-edge terrace in Pyrgos. Tasting flights run €18–55 in 2026, walk-ins work outside sunset hours, and the Grande Reserve Assyrtiko scored 97 points at Decanter 2025..
Nº 02 · Megalochori
Caldera
Venetsanos, built in 1947 as Santorini's first industrial winery, is carved top-to-bottom into the caldera cliff above Athinios port so gravity moves the wine instead of pumps. Its west-facing terrace is one of the island's two true caldera views — calmer than Santo at sunset — with tastings roughly €12–28 basic and about €50 for six-wine flights; booking ahead is strongly advised..
Nº 03 · Episkopi Gonia
Estate Argyros, founded 1903 in Episkopi Gonia, farms the largest private vineyard holding on Santorini — over 120 hectares, with ungrafted vines from 70 to 200 years old — and won the IWSC 2025 Old Vine Trophy. Official tastings run €25 (four wines) and €40 (six wines) with platters, by appointment, though drop-ins are usually accommodated..
Nº 04 · Oia (Baxedes)
Domaine Sigalas — founded by Paris Sigalas in 1991, today part of the Kir-Yianni family — is the estate that put modern Assyrtiko on the world map, tasting in a vineyard garden on Oia's Baxedes plain. Flights run €12–30, guided experiences €100–150, and summer visits should be reserved one to two weeks ahead..
Nº 05 · Pyrgos Kallistis
Hatzidakis is Santorini's benchmark organic estate, vinifying in a cave beneath its own Pyrgos Kallistis vineyard — and it is strictly appointment-only: Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30–15:30, no walk-ins. Tastings run €40 (four wines) to €160 (twelve, including old vintages).
Nº 06 · Megalochori
Gavalas is a fifth-generation family canava in Megalochori with more than 300 years of winemaking behind it — and the world's only producer of Katsano and Voudomato, two nearly extinct Santorini grapes. It's one of the island's friendliest visits: walk-ins welcome, flights of 3–7 wines around €10–20, daily in season..
Nº 07 · Vrachies (Kamari–Monolithos beach)
Gaia Wines occupies a 1900s tomato factory on the beach between Kamari and Monolithos — the only Santorini winery at the water's edge. Official 2026 tastings run €20 (five wines) to €70 (premium Assyrtiko with cheese); open daily 12:00–20:00 from late April to October 31.
Nº 08 · Exo Gonia
Artemis Karamolegos is a family winery in Exo Gonia — grapes since 1952, a modern cellar since 2004 — now among Santorini's three largest producers and its most awarded modern names. Flights run roughly €8–20 with hourly tours in season, and its Aroma Avlis farm-to-table restaurant among the vines is a destination in itself..
Nº 09 · Vourvoulos (northeast)
Vassaltis Vineyards, founded in 2014 by Yannis Valambous, is Santorini's youngest serious winery — a minimalist cellar in Vourvoulos with vine and sea views. Official offerings run €40 for the four-wine tasting with bites, €30 cellar tours, and chef-driven lunches €55–90.
Nº 10 · Exo Gonia
Art Space is Santorini's most atmospheric small winery: an 1861 canava carved into pumice in Exo Gonia, reopened in 1999 by Antonis Argyros as a working art gallery, folk museum, and micro-winery in one. Visits are by appointment only (phone or email — no booking engine), with tastings of about 4–8 wines around €10–20 by recent accounts..
Nº 11 · Mesa Gonia
Canava Roussos, founded in 1836 in Mesa Gonia, is the oldest working winery on Santorini — five generations of one family in the original canava, with a vine-shaded courtyard, tastings priced from just a few euros per sample, and walk-ins welcome for small groups. Hours have varied by season recently, so confirm before a special trip..
Nº 12 · Vothonas
The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum in Vothonas is a 300-meter natural cave eight meters underground, carved over 21 years by a family making wine since 1870. In 2026, packages start at €30 (Bronze: entry, audio guide in 14 languages, four tastings) and climb to premium tiers; it's open year-round and remains Santorini's best rainy-day and family wine stop..
Nº 13 · Potamos, Therasia
Caldera
Mikra Thira is the only winery on Therasia, the small island facing Santorini across the caldera — founded 2017 by the Gerovassiliou and Tsaktsarlis families, with a tasting room open since 2023. Experiences run €35–130, booking is required, it closes Tuesdays, and the trip turns on ferry timing: about 10 minutes from Ammoudi, three crossings a day..
New to the wines themselves? Read the Santorini Wine Guide first — Assyrtiko, Vinsanto, and why the vines grow in baskets.
Good to know
It varies more than any guide admits: Hatzidakis, Art Space, Domaine Sigalas, and Mikra Thira are strictly appointment-only; Venetsanos, Vassaltis, Gaia, Karamolegos, and Estate Argyros strongly prefer booking; Gavalas, Canava Roussos, the Wine Museum, and Santo Wines take walk-ins outside peak hours. Our comparison table above shows each policy.
Yes — with a designated driver and advance bookings, independent visits work well, especially at walk-in-friendly Gavalas, Roussos, and the Wine Museum. The catches: Greek drink-driving limits are strict, summer tasting slots fill days ahead at the popular cellars, and taxi return trips from rural wineries can be slow to arrange. Tours exist to delete exactly those problems.
Sommeliers most often argue for Hatzidakis (organic old-vine purity) and Estate Argyros (density and legendary Vinsanto), with Sigalas the historic benchmark and Vassaltis the exciting newcomer. Honest answer: the island’s top tier is close enough that setting and story should break the tie for a visitor.
Only two have true caldera views: Santo Wines (biggest terrace, biggest crowds) and Venetsanos (carved into the cliff, calmer at sunset). Mikra Thira on Therasia has the unique reverse view back at Santorini. Sigalas and Karamolegos offer lovely vineyard-and-sea settings — beautiful, but not the caldera postcard.
Three eat seriously: Artemis Karamolegos (Aroma Avlis, farm-to-table among the vines), Vassaltis (chef-driven lunches €55–90), and Santo Wines (full restaurant plus pairing platters). Canava Roussos runs a simple taverna. Most others serve tasting platters — generous at Estate Argyros and Gaia — rather than meals.
Domaine Sigalas, on the Baxedes plain a few minutes below Oia — the only serious tasting within a short taxi of the town, and appointment-only, so book one to two weeks ahead in summer. Everything else worth visiting sits 20–35 minutes south. Staying in Oia without a car, Sigalas plus our pickup-included tours is the practical playbook.
The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum in Vothonas is a 10-minute taxi and takes walk-ins; Santo Wines in Pyrgos is 10–12 minutes and effortless outside sunset hours. Venetsanos above Athinios is similarly close but wants a booking. All three anchor our short tours precisely because they cooperate with Fira logistics.
Close-in cellars (the Museum, Santo, Venetsanos, Karamolegos) — easily, though pre-arrange the return pickup; island taxis are few and don’t cruise rural roads. Far-flung stops like Sigalas or Gaia can strand you for an hour after tasting. For two or more people, a tour with pickup usually costs less than three taxi legs anyway.
Every winery on this list sells at the cellar door, usually below restaurant prices, and the bigger shops — Santo Wines and Gaia especially — ship internationally or pack bottles flight-safe. Checked-luggage rule of thumb: bubble-wrap plus clothing survives; Vinsanto’s half-bottles make the easiest gifts. Buying where you tasted is also simply the right thing to do.
Every booking policy, opening hour, and driving distance on this page is a problem our tours already solved. Small groups of eight, wineries named upfront, all fees included.