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.
Address: Megalochori (cliffside above Athinios port), 84700 Santorini
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.
Canava Roussos at Mesa Gonia has been operating continuously since 1836. The traditional canava (cellar) structure and the family's historic Vinsanto and Mavrotragano holdings make Roussos a heritage tasting destination that sits off the main caldera-rim tourism route.
Antoniou Winery in Megalochori operates from one of the historic cave canava cellars dating to the 19th century, with a small modern production layered onto the heritage structure.
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.
