Wine in Exo Gonia, Santorini

Gaia Wines Santorini ★ 4.8

Founded 1994 by Yiannis Paraskevopoulos (wine scientist and Master of Wine candidate) and Leon Karatsalos. Gaia operates two estates: the Santorini cellar at Exo Gonia and a second at Koutsi in Nemea.

Tasting: Walk-in and bookable tastings at the Exo Gonia cellar, including flights focused on Thalassitis (the cuvée briefly aged on the seabed in the Wild Ferment programme), Wild Ferment Assyrtiko, and Mavrotragano.

Signature wines: gaia-thalassitis, gaia-wild-ferment, gaia-thalassitis-submerged

Tip: Thalassitis Submerged (aged in steel cages on the Aegean seabed) is the Gaia headline experience; the standard Thalassitis bottle is a long-running PDO Santorini bottling that pairs well with grilled fish.

Artemis Karamolegos Winery ★ 4.7

Exo Gonia estate built by Artemis Karamolegos in 2004 on family vineyard parcels, with cellar door and the Aroma Avlis restaurant on the same site.

Tasting: Walk-in and reserved tastings year-round; on-site Aroma Avlis Food and Wine restaurant pairs the estate's bottlings with farm-to-table Mediterranean cooking.

Signature wines: karamolegos-assyrtiko-34, karamolegos-nykteri, karamolegos-mavrotragano

Tip: Book a winery visit with lunch at Aroma Avlis on the cellar terrace; the Assyrtiko 34 (older-vines bottling) is the standout dry white.

Art Space Santorini ★ 4.3

Dual gallery and winery opened by Antonis Argyros in 1999 inside the 1861 family canava at Exo Gonia. Small production (a few thousand bottles) of estate-grown Assyrtiko, Aidani and Mavrotragano alongside rotating contemporary art exhibitions.

Tasting: Year-round; tastings combined with the on-site sculpture and painting gallery. The space is built into the 1861 Argyros family canava at Exo Gonia.

Signature wines: art-space-santorini-assyrtiko, art-space-mavrotragano

Tip: Lesser-known than the Argyros family's larger Estate Argyros; a quieter alternative for visitors who want to combine wine with art in a working historic cellar.

Art Space Santorini Tasting Room ★ 4.6

Antonis Argyros's 1861 family canava in Exo Gonia operates as a winery and contemporary art gallery in one. Volcanic tuff caves display Greek artists' work alongside the family's small-production Assyrtiko, Mavrotragano and Vinsanto in oak barrels.

Artemis Karamolegos Winery Tasting Room ★ 4.6

Artemis Karamolegos took over his grandfather's Exo Gonia cellar and expanded it into a destination winery with a full restaurant on site. The tasting room pairs estate Assyrtiko 34 and Mavrotragano with seasonal Cycladic produce at Aroma Avlis.

Art Space Wine Bar ★ 4.5

Antonis Argyros's converted 1861 canava in Exo Gonia operates as a working art gallery, sculpture studio and winery cellar. Tastings flow through hand-dug tuff caves alongside curated exhibitions of contemporary Greek artists.

The list: Small-batch Argyros family wines poured in the volcanic-tuff cave gallery alongside contemporary art exhibitions, with a focus on Mavrotragano, Assyrtiko and oak-aged Vinsanto.

Pours: Art Space Assyrtiko, Art Space Mavrotragano, Art Space Vinsanto 8 Years

Aroma Avlis at Artemis Karamolegos Winery ★ 4.6

Aroma Avlis is the courtyard restaurant of Artemis Karamolegos Winery in Exo Gonia. The kitchen builds tasting menus around the family's organic vegetable garden and the cellar's PDO Santorini Assyrtiko, Aidani and Vinsanto.

Metaxi Mas Tavern ★ 4.6

Metaxi Mas opened in Exo Gonia in 2000 and has grown into a consistently full taverna. The kitchen serves a Greek-Cretan menu of seafood meze and grilled lamb chops alongside a list strong in Santorini Assyrtiko.

Art Space Cave Gallery and Winery Tour ★ 4.5

Art Space Santorini guides visitors through Antonis Argyros's 1861 family canava in Exo Gonia. The route moves through hand-dug volcanic tuff caves displaying contemporary Greek artists' work alongside the working winery production.

Artemis Karamolegos Vineyard Walk with Aroma Avlis ★ 4.6

Artemis Karamolegos combines a guided estate vineyard walk with a pairing menu at the on-site Aroma Avlis restaurant. The kitchen sources from the family's organic vegetable garden and pairs courses with cellar Assyrtiko, Aidani and Vinsanto.

Art Space Cave Gallery and Winery Museum ★ 4.4

Art Space Santorini in Exo Gonia is Antonis Argyros's 1861 family canava operating as a working winery and contemporary art gallery. Volcanic tuff caves display Greek artists' work alongside the winery's old presses and oak barrels.

Karamolegos Aroma Avlis Pairing Experience ★ 4.6

Artemis Karamolegos Winery's Aroma Avlis restaurant runs a structured pairing menu that opens with an estate cellar tour and a walk through the organic vegetable garden.

Art Space Gallery-and-Wine Experience ★ 4.5

Art Space Santorini in Exo Gonia operates as a working winery and contemporary art gallery in the same 1861 canava. The experience walks through hand-dug volcanic tuff caves displaying Greek artists' work alongside the family's Assyrtiko, Mavrotragano and Vinsanto.

Art Space Winery ★ 4.2

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.