"Afianes" Winery, located in the Greek island of
Ikaria, in the Northen Aegean see of Greece. The winery was created in 1997 at
Raches, it is built in a viniyard at an altitude of 610m. It is a family
business with a limited productivity.
They started this project out of love for it, and their main
goal was to give Ikaria's wine the place it deserves on the wine map of
Greece. The Ikarian wine has been known since the Homeric times as
Pramneios Wine (wine that soothes), one of the oldest wine origins of wine worldwide.
Experimentation led to expansion to other
winemaking technics. In their winery you can find the "cyclopean
petal", which is the place of traditional wine jar storage where fermentation
and maturing of wines takes place, by
using the ancient method of winemaking in Greece, by putting the wine in jar
vessels burried in the earth called ''Amphora''. The final touch of this winery setting is a small, ancient
type theater, and a traditional building designed as a vintage cellar. Also
there is a show room with a collection of traditional utensils. Visitors have
the opportunity to taste the Afianes wines whilst enjoying an imposing view to
the Aegean Sea….
