Wine Making Experience in Crete!
The period of winemaking in Crete has started! Take advantage of our special offers and book your Experience now!
Exclusive Wine Making Experience in Crete
The Winemaking period has just started in Crete! Experience the Harvest of the Grapes and Grape Stomping by Foot in a traditional Village!
We are taking you to one of the most authentic parts of the central coast of the island, been driven through fertile fields olive groves, and grapevines. Enjoy a wonderful scenic drive and find out a lot about the local products of the island and the way of life in the traditional villages of Crete. On the way, reach one of the most authentic little villages of Crete.
Harvest Winegrapes and Make Wine as in the Past
Reaching the small village, your hosts will welcome you to their house and offer you several local products and specialties. Homemade marmalades and cheese pies, organic olive oil and wine, resins, and delicious local nuts are a typical mouthful welcome! Local honey and homemade local “spoon sweets” are to go along.
Your adventure is just starting! With members of the local family hosting you for the day, you reach their fertile grapevine fields and participate in the harvest of the grapes. Exactly as we, the locals do, exactly as the people of Crete have been practicing for thousands of years. Find out a lot about the cultivation of the grapes and the production of the Cretan local wines, since the family has been producing local wine varieties for many years, and experience the harvest in an enjoyable way.
May you bring the gapes back to the house traditional wine press, and the biggest fun of the day begins! The stomping of the grapes inside the press by foot! This is something we bet you will never forget! Feeling and stomping, stepping, and dancing on the grapes you have just harvested, with the smell of wine in the air, you will be transmitted into different, older times.
A hard day’s work and such a unique Experience cannot end without a wonderful meal. Try delicious Cretan dishes cooked by the housewife from their own products and even participate in the cooking process, if you feel like it!
Experience the Winemaking in Crete – Dionysus has always been here!
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