5 editor-picked estates growing Sauvignon Blanc in Nemea.
Where to taste Sauvignon Blanc in Nemea: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
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.
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.
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.