Wine in Vothonas, Santorini

Koutsoyannopoulos Winery (Volcan Wines) ★ 4.4

Koutsoyannopoulos family canava at Vothonas (between Fira and Kamari), founded 1870 and operating since the 1990s with the on-site Wine Museum, an 8-room cave display covering 300 years of Santorini viticulture.

Tasting: Daily year-round; the visit combines the working winery, the underground Wine Museum (an 8-room cave tracing 300 years of Santorini wine history), and a tasting flight of the estate's Volcan Wines bottlings.

Signature wines: Volcan Wines Santorini Assyrtiko, Volcan Wines Nykteri, Volcan Wines Vinsanto

Tip: The cave Wine Museum is the most child-friendly wine attraction on Santorini and one of the few rainy-day options on the island; the tasting flight afterwards is solid value.

Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum Shop ★ 4.4

The retail shop of the Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum in Vothonas sits in the cave museum entrance. Stocks the family estate's own PDO Santorini wines including Assyrtiko, Mandilaria-led reds and Vinsanto barrels.

Wine focus: Koutsogiannopoulos estate portfolio plus selections from across the museum's e-shop catalogue including Assyrtiko, Mandilaria and Vinsanto

Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum Tasting School ★ 4.4

The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum combines a self-paced audio tour of the 300-metre cave winemaking exhibition with a structured tasting at the bar. Visitors learn 400 years of Santorini vine-grower history before sampling estate wines.

Tip: Book the premium 6-wine flight to include the Vinsanto vertical at the end of the cave route; the audio guide is available in 14 languages.

Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum Tour ★ 4.4

The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum is a 300-metre labyrinth-shaped underground cave 8 metres beneath the village of Vothonas. The audio-guided tour walks through the history of Santorini viticulture from the 1600s with a tasting at the end.

Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum ★ 4.5

Located 8 metres below ground in a 300-metre labyrinth-shaped natural cave, the Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum traces the history of wine-making and the life of vine-growers in Santorini since the 1600s.

Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Cave Museum Experience ★ 4.5

The Koutsogiannopoulos Wine Museum sits 8 metres below the village of Vothonas in a 300-metre labyrinth-shaped natural cave. The audio-guided experience walks through 400 years of Santorini wine-making history before a structured tasting at the museum bar.