Santorini wine tour: 10 tastings at 3 volcanic wineries

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1/19

Duration5h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

What makes Santorini's volcanic wines taste like nowhere else?

You visit three traditional wineries on Santorini with a sommelier guide, taste ten volcanic wines from the island's unique terroir, walk through cellars to see how the wine is made, and finish with dinner as the sun sets. The group stays small—under eight people—so there's time to ask questions and actually absorb what you're tasting. Everything is included: tastings, snacks, dinner, water, and all taxes.

Step-by-step itinerary

Santorini wineries and wine tasting

Meet private wine expert sommelier
Visit 3 traditional wineries
Tour wine cellars and production
Taste 10 types of Santorini wine
Enjoy dinner with culinary experience

The Experience

The cork pulls with a soft pop, and the first glass catches the last light coming through the cellar window—pale gold, almost translucent. That's your first taste of what the volcanic soil around Santorini actually tastes like. You're standing inside one of three traditional wineries scattered across the island, and the sommelier is already pouring the second pour before you've finished thinking about the first. Ten different wines across the afternoon means you're not rushing through any of them, but you're also not lingering so long that the day disappears. The group stays under eight people, so there's room to ask questions without feeling like you're holding up a line.

Each winery has its own cellar tour built in—you see the bottling process, walk past the aging tanks, and understand why Santorini's wines taste like nowhere else. The volcanic soil, the dry climate, the way the vines are trained low to the ground to catch the moisture—it all adds up to a profile that doesn't exist anywhere else in Greece. You'll taste Assyrtiko, which is crisp and mineral and almost salty, then Nykteri, which is fuller and ages in the bottle, and then the sweet Vinsanto that tastes like the island's history in a glass. Snacks come between pours—local cheese, bread, olives—so you're not tasting on an empty stomach and the wine doesn't blur into the next one.

By the time you reach the third winery, the sun is already low. That's when dinner happens—a proper meal, not a tasting plate, paired with the wines you've already learned to recognize. You sit down knowing what you're drinking and why it matters, which changes how it tastes. The sommelier is there the whole time, not hovering but present, and the conversation usually drifts from wine to the island itself, to how the families who run these places think about their work. Water is included throughout, and so is everything else—the tastings, the snacks, the dinner, all the taxes. You don't reach for your wallet between the pickup and the drop-off.

What’s included

Your afternoon includes entry and cellar tours at three traditional Santorini wineries, a tasting of ten different wines from the island, snacks between tastings, a full dinner, bottled water, and all taxes. The group is kept small at eight people maximum, so there's time to ask the sommelier questions about each wine and the volcanic soil that makes them unique.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by My Santorini Tour

Is this one for you?Right for wine drinkers who want to understand Santorini's volcanic wines rather than just taste them, and who prefer a small group where you can actually talk to the guide. Plan for an afternoon and early evening out—that's what lets you visit three wineries, taste thoughtfully, and sit down to dinner without rushing.