Tour, Tasting and Food Pairing at Zacharioudakis Winery

At Zacharioudakis Winery in Crete, this 90-minute tour, tasting, and food pairing experience offers the most comprehensive visit the estate provides. A journey through Cretan viticulture guided by the journalist founder’s storytelling approach — matching wines with local Cretan food at every step. In 2000, journalist Stelios Zacharioudakis and his wife Victoria began to realize their vision: to make a space that will honor the vineyards and wine, a milestone in the modern, promising wine history of Crete. Zacharioudakis Winery was thus established a top the hill called “Orthi Petra”, at an altitude of 500 m. on the north of the archaeological site of ancient Gortyna, at the settlement of Plouti in southern Crete 45 km south of Heraklion.

Winery Tour and Wine Tasting

• Cultural Winery Tour: Explore Zacharioudakis Winery and hear the founding vision of journalist Stelios Zacharioudakis — a space honouring Cretan vineyards as living cultural milestones
• Wine Tasting: Taste a curated selection of Zacharioudakis wines — indigenous Cretan varieties told through the lens of a journalist’s storytelling
• Food Pairing: Each wine is matched with authentic Cretan food pairings selected to reveal new dimensions of flavour and cultural connection

A culturally rich wine and food experience in Crete. Book through Gastronomy Tours.