Santorini Private Wine tour

Your Own Personal Tour

With more than 15 years of private wine touring experience and winery tours in Santorini, our Company is the island's leading specialist wine tours operator. A unique and genuine tourism experience that group tours are unable to offer. You always have the option to modify and extend the tour route and tour duration.

Santorini: Land of Food and Wine

In our Private Wine Tour you'll taste great, rare and undiscovered Santorini wines, stroll through grape vineyards and shop at the Winery Boutiques! You'll enjoy gourmet food, deliciously matched to the local wines and often at a private lunch or dinner at the wine cellars and chateaux.

Tip: You may find a more intimate wine experience by visiting the small and more personal wineries where the opportunity may present itself to talk with the winemaker or owner.

Unveil the rich tradition and the specialties of family-owned Santorini Wineries.

Private Santorini Tours believes that a wine tour is much more than simply providing transportation from one winery tasting room to the next. We believe that one should leave our tour with a greater knowledge of the world of wine than when you started.

Do I need to be a wine expert to take a tour?
Not at all. Wine lovers span a wide range of expertise. Some simply love wine, others have taken wine appreciation courses. All our visits include educational components that add to everyone's enjoyment of wine. We are careful to cater to everyone's specific needs.

Recommended Itinerary

• All our santorini wine tours will start at your place, with our guide meeting you at the agreed time.
• You will travel to three or more santorini wineries to enjoy the most popular wines.
• You will learn all about wine making and wine tasting on your tour.
• Then sit back, relax and enjoy a delicious lunch prepared at one of the top fine dining or winery restaurants.
• In the tour route, you have the ability to Visit other Santorini Attractions.
• Your local tour guide will escort you back to your place.

Customize Your Own Wine Tour

• Celebrate a dinner event in an authentic private underground wine cellar.
• We specialize in creating corporate events for any number of people.
• A great way to celebrate an anniversary or milestone achievement.
• Enjoy an afternoon around wine for a wedding party.

Tip: Winery Tours are terrific for celebrating Birthdays, Anniversaries, Girls Day Out, Bachelor or Bachelorette Party's, any Special Occasions! So grab your camera and join guests from around the world to Celebrate! Whether visiting for your annual holiday, honeymoon, travelling with friends or family, or even being here on business - Private Santorini Tours can arrange you something special to suit your interests and tastes!

How all started.

After the cataclysmic volcanic eruption, 1645 BC, the entire island of Santorini was covered by lava, ash and pumice stone. But the disaster helped the soil to be perfect for creating the distinctive Santorini wines.

The Santorini's most famous wines are considered to be the white dry and aromatic wines Nykteri and Assyrtico and the world famous Vinsanto. Both the Nykteri and Vinsanto belong to the category of "Name of Origin of Superior Quality" and come under the European Union status for "Quality Wines Produced in Statedly Areas".

Nykteri

Nykteri wine took its name due to the fact that it is produced instantly in the middle of the night for the grapes, which were harvested just the day before. The viticulturists press the grapes from the morning till the night and the whole process of wine making takes place during the night when the temperatures are lower. The undermined "canavas" with their carefully studied windows create the adequate night streams, necessary for the fermentation process.

Vinsanto

Vinsanto wine is a sweet, white or red wine produced from grapes dried in the sun. The celebrated sweet wine which expresses Santorini's uniqueness, it used to complete the gustative feasts of the Medieval times noblemen, while at the same time, comprised for centuries the "Holly Communion" to all the chalices of the Russian Orthodox Church.