Sigalas's private evening tasting format provides a calmer, more focused alternative to the busy cellar door, with the estate's range presented in a structured flight on the outdoor terrace at Baxedes. Recommended for serious wine visitors.
The list: Domaine Sigalas offers private evening tastings by booking, focused on the estate's single-vineyard Assyrtiko range and including the Mavrotragano red and library bottlings on request. Sessions run through sunset on the outdoor terrace.
Address: Baxedes, Oia 84702, Santorini
Argyros's evening vertical sessions are a structured Assyrtiko tasting, covering the estate's old-vine bottlings across multiple back vintages. Book directly with the estate well in advance.
The list: Estate Argyros offers evening vertical-tasting sessions of the estate's old-vine Assyrtiko, Cuvee Monsignori and Vinsanto library across multiple vintages. The session is structured for serious wine visitors and requires advance booking.
Hatzidakis's evening tastings provide access to the estate's organic-certified Santorini Assyrtiko in a small-group setting. The estate is run by the Hatzidakis family in the village of Pyrgos Kallistis and the tastings are markedly more intimate than the high-volume cooperative venues.
The list: Hatzidakis Winery offers evening tastings by booking, focused on the estate's organic-certified Assyrtiko and Mavrotragano range. The Hatzidakis cellar is a long-running organic producer on the island.
Argyros's sparkling Assyrtiko is one of the few sparkling wines made from Santorini's signature variety and provides a stylistic contrast within the estate's range. Cellar door tastings include the sparkling expression alongside the still bottlings.
The list: Estate Argyros produces a sparkling Assyrtiko in the estate's range, providing one of the few Santorini sparkling wines available in formal cellar door tasting. The flight includes still and sparkling comparisons of the estate's Assyrtiko expressions.
Gaia Wines makes a sparkling Assyrtiko alongside the still range, and the comparative tasting of sparkling and still expressions provides an instructive stylistic contrast within the appellation.
The list: Gaia Wines maintains a sparkling Assyrtiko programme alongside the Thalassitis still range, with traditional-method production. Tasting includes a comparative flight of the sparkling and still expressions of the variety.
Fira's caldera-rim wine bars between them maintain a Greek sparkling programme that complements the Santorini still-wine focus elsewhere. The format gives access to small-producer Santorini sparkling Assyrtiko alongside the broader Greek sparkling landscape.
The list: Several Fira caldera-rim wine bars maintain a by-the-glass sparkling programme covering Santorini sparkling Assyrtiko alongside Greek mainland sparkling wines from PDO Amyndeo, Cava Amyntaio and elsewhere. A useful comparative format for visitors interested in Greek sparkling wine more broadly.
Mati is a long-running Fira wine bar known for its by-the-glass Assyrtiko programme and informal late-night atmosphere. The list rotates through the island's main producers and is one of the easiest places in Fira to taste several Santorini estates without making winery appointments.
The list: Mati maintains a focused list of Santorini PDO Assyrtiko by the glass across multiple producers (Sigalas, Argyros, Hatzidakis, Vassaltis) alongside a smaller selection of Greek mainland reds. Glass pours run later than most caldera-rim wine venues, making this a useful late-evening Assyrtiko stop in central Fira.