industrial winery

The Gravity-Powered Winery That Revolutionized Santorini’s Wine History

In the late 1940s, the inauguration of the Venetsanos family winery in Megalochori marked a watershed moment for Santorini, signaling the end of the pre-industrial "kanava" (traditional cave cellars) era. The mastermind behind this revolutionary project was chemist-oenologist Georgios Venetsanos....