Art Space at Exo Gonia combines a working winery with a contemporary art gallery in the structure of a 19th-century canava. The winery produces small-batch Assyrtiko and Mavrotragano alongside rotating art exhibitions in the same cave-cellar complex. The combination of wine and art makes Art Space a distinctive cellar-door visit away from the main caldera-rim tourist circuit.
Address: Exo Gonia, 84700 Santorini
Gavalas Winery in Megalochori is a small family producer working with Assyrtiko and rare Aidani-led whites alongside Mavrotragano reds. The estate has been farming Santorini vines for generations and the wines are sold direct from the village cellar with limited distribution beyond Greece.
Behind the popular Domaine Sigalas cellar door at Baxedes, the estate occasionally offers small-group library tastings of aged Assyrtiko vintages and limited single-vineyard bottlings that do not appear in the main flight menu. Booking these tastings is best done by email directly with the estate.
Vassaltis Vineyards has released a series of single-parcel Assyrtiko bottlings since the late 2010s that are less widely seen than the entry-tier cuvee.
The restored 1947 cliffside Venetsanos Winery sits on the caldera edge above the Athinios ferry harbour and operates as a tasting destination with a small modern wine programme.
Estate Argyros holds significant concentrations of vines over 100 years old and occasionally offers small-group tastings of the Monosirto single-vineyard Assyrtiko alongside vineyard walks among century-old kouloura baskets. These are less commonly part of the standard cellar door experience.
The Sigalas Mavrotragano is a small-production red from the estate's holdings of the recovered native variety and provides the most accessible cellar-door tasting of an estate-grown Mavrotragano on the island.
