Wine has always been one of the primary elements of the Greek diet. The beginning of the viticulture dates back to the 15th century BC, and a lot of ancient writers, such as Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Plato, and Xenophon, often refer to the wines of the period.
We know that wine was one of the main export products to the cities of the Black Sea, Asia Minor, and Italy and Dionysos (or Bacchus), was worshipped in all the different parts of the country as the god of the wine and of the joy of life.
The development of bottled wine starts in the sixties and in the last 60 years there is a spectacular improvement of the Greek wines, with a lot of different varieties. There are many well-organized vineyards and wineries in every part of the country, some of them very near Athens, and you can very easily include a visit to one of them during your full-day tours.
You can include such a visit in an f/d tour to Cape Sounion or Marathon (5-7 hours), or with a tour to Corinth, or Mycenae and Nafplion (8-10 hours), and of course to any of our multiple days’ tours.