22 editor-picked estates growing Assyrtiko in Nemea.
Where to taste Assyrtiko 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.