While perhaps best known for its striking white architecture set against the bright blue waters of the Aegean Sea, Santorini’s winemaking tradition is recapturing the interest of oenophiles. At the ...

Greek islands have enchanted people for thousands of years. Odysseus spent 10 years traveling around them on his way home in the epic poem, “The Odyssey.” Jacquelyn Kennedy idled away many days on ...

Had Charles Darwin been a sommelier, I imagine he would have enjoyed regaling his restaurant patrons with a discourse on the survival fitness of assyrtiko, the signature white grape of Santorini. It's ...

As longtime fans of Greek wine and especially Assyrtiko from Santorini, we were recently blown away by Gai’a’s latest release, 2022 Ammonite, a single-plot Assyrtiko from 300-year-old ungrafted vines.

The Greek island of Santorini is a visual delight—imagine the circular rim of a volcano almost submerged beneath the Aegean Sea. The circle is incomplete, however, and what remains—a semicircle—faces ...

Santorini is famous for its sunsets but it is also known for its wine. There are 13 wineries on an island that is only 11 miles long and 7 miles wide. White grapes make up 80 percent of the grapes ...

The Greeks have always been trailblazers. While the ancient Greeks were busy inventing such trifles as indoor plumbing, medicine, democracy, and the foundations of Western thought, they were also ...

When contemplating what to pair with, say, a Spanish wine, one way to narrow down is to look at food that comes from the same region as the wine. There’s often a synergy, for hopefully obvious reasons ...

For travelers seeking the quintessential Mediterranean dream, two names inevitably rise to the top: Santorini and the Amalfi ...