49 editor-picked estates growing Agiorgitiko in Nemea.
Where to taste Agiorgitiko in Nemea: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
Family winery on the main road through Nemea town. The Athanasiou family has grown vines since 1855 and built this cellar in 2007 for Agiorgitiko, Assyrtiko and Moschofilero.
Tasting: The winery does not receive visitors; bottles are sold through the trade.
Third generation family cellar in Nemea town. First vinification in 2002, first bottling in 2004, and today 13 labels drawn from 18 hectares of owned vineyard.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00 by appointment. Cellar tour, tasting and a shop on site.
Ilias Bizios farms 10 hectares of organically grown vines at 850 metres above the village of Asprokampos, the highest ground in the Nemea PDO zone.
Tasting: Visits by arrangement. Tasting, winery, vineyard and cellar tour, plus a shop on site.
Small Ancient Nemea cellar founded in 2006 in the family's rebuilt winery. Own rooted vines over 45 years old at 340 metres on red sandy clay loam.
Tasting: Visits by prior arrangement. Barrel tasting, winery, vineyard and cellar tour.
Founded by George Skouras, the winery moved from Gymno to Malandreni in the Argolida corner of the Nemea zone. Agiorgitiko and Moschofilero sit beside Bordeaux varieties.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00, Saturday 10:30 to 18:00, closed Sundays and public holidays. Appointment required.
Gaia began in 1994 and runs two cellars, one at Koutsi in Nemea and one on Santorini. The 7 hectare Koutsi vineyard feeds the Gaia Estate Agiorgitiko.
Tasting: Visits by arrangement. Tank and barrel tastings, winery, vineyard and cellar tours, step free access.
Konstantinos Gofas took over the family cellar in 1998 and moved it in 2011 to Koutsi, inside the estate vineyard beside the Asopos river.
Tasting: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 17:00, walk in or by appointment. Tasting, cellar tour, meals and a shop.
Set up in 2003 by a grower family who had made wine only for themselves. Four bottlings now: Nemea Halkia, a fresh Agiorgitiko in red and rose, plus a Roditis white.
Tasting: Visits by arrangement or on a set programme. Tasting, winery, vineyard and cellar tour.
The Harlaftis family's Nemea cellar sits at Achladias in the middle of its vineyard, built for red winemaking with an underground cava holding over 500 oak barrels.
Four generations of Agiorgitiko growing at the entrance to Nemea town. Reds mature in an underground cellar in oak barrels and amphorae before bottle ageing.
Tasting: By appointment. Tank and barrel tasting, winery, vineyard and cellar tour, meals, shop, step free access.
The Nemea arm of Domaine Tselepos, planted at Koutsi and given over entirely to Agiorgitiko for the Driopi bottlings.
Tasting: The winery does not receive visitors.
One of the busiest doors in Ancient Nemea for visitors. The Palivou Wine Train tasting room opened in 2023 on a terrace above the Ancient Nemea valley.
Tasting: October to March daily 09:00 to 17:00; April to September daily 10:00 to 18:00. Walk in or by appointment.
Boutique winery and vine nursery at Leontio, working 2,000 square metres of purpose built premises under Christos Raptis.
Tasting: Visits by arrangement. Tasting, winery and cellar tour, shop, step free access.
The Nemea cellar of the Arcadian house Spiropoulos, placed at the Ancient Nemea junction on the Corinth to Tripoli road and given over to Agiorgitiko.
Tasting: By appointment or on a set programme. Tank and barrel tasting, winery, vineyard and cellar tour, meals, shop.
A high volume cellar at Archaies Kleones, the first wine village on the road in from Corinth, with a visitor programme running seven days a week.
Tasting: Monday to Sunday 09:00 to 17:00. Bookings by phone or at [email protected]. Tasting, tours, meals and a shop.
Forty years of vintages at Archaies Kleones, selecting fruit from growers in the zone and ageing the reds in French oak in a climate controlled cava.
Tasting: Visits by arrangement.
Winery at Xerokampos on the Nemea plain, exporting about 40 per cent of production. The range runs from Nemea Lantides to Chrysambelo and the Cuvee Lantides.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 18:00, walk in or by appointment. Tank and barrel tasting, meals, rooms, shop, step free access.
Fifth generation growers whose vineyard plots at Agios Georgios appear in Greek state land records of 1828. The winery itself dates from 1913.
A working Nemea cellar on the Galatas road that vinifies Agiorgitiko for its own label and for larger Greek houses it has supplied for years.
Tasting: Monday to Sunday 10:00 to 17:00.
Oenologist Giorgos Vassiliou built an isobaric winery over five levels at Nemea, with DIO certified organic plots at Koutsi, Petri and Asprokampos.
Tasting: Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00 by appointment, closed Sundays and public holidays. Six guest suites on site.
Organic grower and winemaker at Xerokampos, at the foot of the Panagia hill on the way into Nemea, with the cellar set among its own Agiorgitiko vines.
Tasting: The winery receives visitors.
Yannis Nikolaou studied viticulture and oenology at Bordeaux and founded the estate in 1984 on the slopes of Mount Veseza, at the Douramani site near ancient Phlious.
Tasting: Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 15:00, walk in welcome. Tasting, tours, meals, shop, step free access.
Founded by Thanasis Papaioannou and now run by his son Giorgos, a chemist and oenologist. Sixty three hectares of owned vines spread across sites in the Nemea zone.
Tasting: By appointment. Tasting and a shop on site.
Third generation family winery at Archaies Kleones. Eight hectares of owned vines plus fruit from 15 selected growers around Kleones and Nemea.
Tasting: Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 19:00, closed Sundays and public holidays.
Semeli started in 1979 at the foot of Mount Penteli and built its Nemea winery at Koutsi in 2003, at 600 metres, with a gravity fed cellar and visitor rooms.
Tasting: Tours Monday to Friday except Tuesday at 10:00, 11:30, 13:00 and 14:30; Saturday and Sunday at 11:00, 13:00 and 15:00.
Set up in 2005 on eight hectares of organically farmed Agiorgitiko, with a processing unit completed in 2006 on the slopes of Koutsi above the Nemea valley.
Tasting: By appointment. Tasting, winery and vineyard tour, meals, shop, step free access.
Working with growers in the mountain villages of Psari, Asprokampos, Kefalari, Kastraki and Bozikas since 1993, where harvest runs two weeks behind the Nemea plain.
Tasting: The Asprokampos winery does not receive visitors.
Founded by the agronomist Ilias Zacharias, who has worked with Nemea fruit since 1974. Bottling under the family name began in 2002, with Agiorgitiko and the local Sklava.
Hillside tasting room at 600 metres in Koutsi, pouring PDO Nemea and PDO Mantinia labels after a walk through the gravity-fed cellar. Booking is required.
Tip: The estate closes on Tuesdays and on public holidays, and visitors must be over 12, so fix the slot before you drive up from Nafplio.
Koutsi cellar door where a vineyard walk and cellar tour end in flights that set Nemea Agiorgitiko against the company's Santorini Assyrtiko. Bookings are taken online.
Tip: The €70 premium flight closes with a twenty-year-old Vinsanto, the only bottle in the range that is not from the Peloponnese.
Purpose-built tasting room on the main street of Nemea town, reached after a twenty-minute walk through the bottling hall and the barrel and amphora cellar.
Tip: Cheese and charcuterie platters need no booking, but the full menu does, so ask when you reserve if you want lunch with the flight.
Tasting hall, ageing cellar and outdoor terrace at Archaies Kleones, reached from the first Nemea exit. Step-free throughout and open to dogs and children.
Tip: Reservations go to [email protected] rather than the general address, and the winery takes bookings on the hour from 09:00 to 16:00.
Tasting and sales room at the Xerokampos cellar, opened after a guided walk through the production floor. Groups above six are handled by arrangement.
Tip: Bookings go to [email protected], a separate inbox from the Athens head office address on the contact page.
Tasting space above a thousand-barrel cellar outside Nafplio, where flights run from the whites through the roses to the Nemea reds.
Tip: Tours run in Greek or English and the booking form asks which you want, so state it rather than turning up and hoping.
Town-centre cellar on Pindou street with a tour of the winery and barrel room followed by a tasting and a sales counter. Groups are welcome.
Tip: The range runs to eleven varieties, so name the Agiorgitiko line or the white and aromatic labels when booking a slot.
Small organic cellar on the Dafni road pouring unfiltered, unfined wines from vines certified organic since 2007. Walk-ins are taken, booking is advised.
Tip: Tastings are hosted in English, Greek and Russian, and the family answers the winery mobile on WhatsApp.
Boutique cellar in the village of Leontio, a few minutes above Nemea town, with a tasting room covering reds, rose, sparkling and sweet bottlings.
Tip: Saturday opening is a three-hour window from midday, much shorter than the weekday slot, so book that one early.
High-altitude organic estate at Asprokampos taking visitors by arrangement for a vineyard, winery and cellar tour that ends in a seated tasting.
Tip: Asprokampos sits well above the Nemea valley floor and the road up is slow, so allow more driving time than the map suggests.
Tasting room at Archaies Kleones where the flight comes with small meals and a film on the wine history of the village, with the barrel cellars below.
Tip: Visits run daily from 10:00 to 15:00 but only after a phone call to the winery, so ring 27460 31000 the day before.
The straight Nemea bottling from the Skouras cellar at Malandreni, made from Agiorgitiko alone and listed on the estate's own range page as a dry red. Sold in Athens for a little over eleven euros.
Tip: The cheapest way into the Skouras range. Taste it beside the estate's Grande Cuvee to see what the extra ten euros buys.
Skouras bottles this as a dry red from one hundred per cent Agiorgitiko, the step above the estate's straight Nemea. It stays under twenty five euros on the Greek market.
Tip: Still inside the budget band at about twenty two euros, and the one to open if you want Nemea with some cellar time behind it.
The house red of the Palivou cellar at Ancient Nemea, listed on the estate's product page as Agiorgitiko under the Nemea name. One of the easiest bottles to buy at the door, since the cellar takes walk in visitors.
Tip: Palivou opens daily, 10:00 to 18:00 from April to September, so you can buy this one without an appointment.
The entry Nemea from an estate that farms 630 stremmata by organic methods across Xirokampos, Kolones and the other Ancient Nemea parcels. It carries the vintage on the estate's own label list.
Tip: Papaioannou receives by appointment only, so order this one in Athens unless you have called the cellar ahead.
The old vine Nemea from Papaioannou, sold in Greece as Palaia Klimata and listed on the estate's label page. Twenty two euros is the top of what counts as a value buy in this zone.
Tip: The estate's parcels sit at different altitudes and vine ages, which is the point of this bottling. Give it an hour open.
Mitravelas lists this under its Ktima family of wines as a PDO Nemea red. The cellar sits on Christopoulou street in the town and the family has grown Agiorgitiko here for five generations.
Tip: If you like it, the estate's Old Vines bottling is the same fruit taken much further, at roughly four times the price.
Ergo is one of the labels Ktima Lantides lists on its own site, a Nemea red from a cellar that makes about 200,000 bottles a year off 170 stremmata of owned vineyard plus contracted growers.
Tip: Lantides takes walk in visitors Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00, and there is a magnum of this wine if you are buying for a table.
The reserve level Nemea from the Semeli cellar at Koutsi, listed among the estate's red wines. Semeli was founded in 1979 and runs fixed tour times most days of the week.
Tip: Koutsi sits high enough that Semeli's fruit keeps acidity. Worth tasting next to a plain bottling from the valley floor.
The top Nemea in the Semeli red range, listed on the estate's own wines page. At about twenty four euros it is the last bottle in the zone that still clears the twenty five euro line.
Tip: Released with several years behind it. Semeli also bottles this in magnum, which turns up in Athens shops at more than twice the price.
The Classic bottling from Ktima Driopi at Koutsi, the Nemea arm of the Tselepos family. The cellar does not receive visitors, so this is a bottle you buy in town or in Athens.
Tip: Koutsi fruit at about twelve euros. A useful reference point for what the village gives before oak is added.