Adopt your own wine

Discover and actively become involved in Santorini’s unique wine industry and very special terroir with our Adopt a Vine scheme.

SantorInI IS haIled as Europe’s oldest vineyard, a blessed rock where grapes are grown with traditional methods producing extraordinary and very unique wines. Our Adopt a Vine scheme is the perfect experience for anyone who loves wine. When you adopt a vine you really get to feel the romance of the vines, and understand a year in the life of a vine, the smell of the earth and the warmth of the sun. Boasting a history that spreads over three millennia, wine is not just a buzzword on Santorini.

Wandering around rocky Santorini with its cliff-edges, black soil and red beaches, visitors are often stunned by the sight of countless fields of vines planted in a circle close to the ground. Known locally as “kouloures”, this plantation method allows the grapes to grow on this seemingly unfertile land which boasts a high acidity and low pH which instils such a unique flavour into the grapes. Adopting a vine ultimately gives wine aficionados the opportunity to be a part of the wine cultivation process that has taken centuries to develop, become familiar with the island’s ancient grape varieties, and of course its distinctly unique terroir. •

Santorini is said by

aficionados to be the oldest vineyard in Europe. Adopt a Wine, and become a part of the living legacy of the island’s wine making industry which continues to follow painstaking traditions of manually ploughing the land, hand pruning the wines and hand-picking the grapes to produce wines of exceptional quality.