Wine Roads
Discover the Wine Roads in Northern Greece.
Travel along some of the most renowned Greek vineyards. Stop at celebrated wineries and sample your favorite wines where they are produced. Seek the traditional products and the cuisine each region has to offer.
You’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover how the aromas and tastes seem to be attuned to the locale, in ways that you could have hardly imagined before you left the city behind. Enjoy the beauties as nature unfolds them all around you, but also come to know the works of man, worthy of the glamour that surrounds them: archaeological sites, churches and monasteries, museums, buildings of folklore or cultural interest.
Wineries open to visitors, restaurants and taverns, hotels and inns, shops stocked with local traditional products and sites offering alternative recreational activities, across Northern Greece await you to visit them.Plan your itinerary and be prepared for unique experiences!
Wine route in Thessaloniki
On the wine route in Thessaloniki, visitors shall pass Kalochori and the Delta of river Axios with its noteworthy wetland habitat and will either travel to the north, to Lagadas and the mountainous settlement of Ossa, or to the east, to Askos and the lakes Koroneia and Volvi until they reach the Strymonian Gulf. Closer to Thessaloniki the route shall lead to the seaside resorts of Perea, Agia Triada and Nea Michaniona and will end in Epanopi, the cape at the eastern end of Thermaic Gulf.
Visitors may enjoy guided tours of the following wineries in the area: Gerovasileiou Estate in Epanomi, Florian Estate in Trilofos and Kechri Winery in Kalochori.
The Pella–Goumenissa Wine Route
The Pella-Goumenissa Wine Route geographically belongs to the Prefectures of Kilkis and Pella and includes the vinicultural regions of Goumenissa and Giannitsa.
Wine Route in Naousa
The Wine Route in Naousa will take you on a trip in what is probably the most renowned enological area in Northern Greece. The prime red grape variety of Northern Greece, Xinomavro, is grown here and there is a significant number of wineries open to visitors. Travelers in the area can visit the wineries located along the Wind Road of Naousa: Boutaris in Stenimachos, Fountis Estate in Nea Strantza, Kyr-Giannis in Giannakochori, Argiatia in Rodochori, Vaeni, Naousa in Episkopi, Tarala in Patrida and Diamantakos Estate in Mandemi.
Wine Route of the Olympian Gods
The valley of Tempi constitutes the natural southernmost end of the Roads of Wine in Northern Greece and it is here that the route of the Olympian Gods begins, stopping the Katsaros Estate in Krania and Kitrvs Winery in Pydna, Pieria.
Wine Route in Halkidiki
The Wine Route in Halkidiki starts from Agios Pavlos on the Halkidiki peninsula. It continues to Porto Carras in Sithonia, ascends to the mountainous Halkidiki, and ends at Agios, Mount Athos.
Dionysus’ Wine Route
The final route on the Wine Roads of Northern Greece commences at Kokkinochori, located on Mountain Paggeo, the centre of Dionysian worship in antiquity, where the visitor can enjoy a guided tour of Vivlia Chora Estate. The route then passes from the city of Kavala and its famous Byzantine Castle, the walls and the impressive Aqueduct and continues with direction to the city of Drama where one can visit the Estates Kostas Lazaridis and Oenops, passing Mircochori, where one can visit the Techni Oinou Estate.
Ascending towards Mountain Falakro, you will reach Kokkinogeia at the Municipality of Prosotsani and take a guided tour of Pavlidis Estate. Returning to Kavala, the visitor will head east to Thrace, with the final wine destination Maronia.
Source: www.wineroads.gr