Anhydrous Winery ★ 4.4
Anhydrous Winery is a low-intervention producer near Megalochori farming Santorini Assyrtiko and Mavrotragano with a minimal-additives cellar approach.
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.
Address: Megalochori, 84700 Santorini
Anhydrous Winery is a low-intervention producer near Megalochori farming Santorini Assyrtiko and Mavrotragano with a minimal-additives cellar approach.
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.
Anhydrous Winery is a low-intervention producer near Megalochori farming Santorini Assyrtiko and Mavrotragano with a minimal-additives cellar approach.