"With an Olive Tree, a Vineyard and a Boat, You Can Rebuild Greece", Odysseas Elytis. Our small town of Galaxidi had all the prerequisites above. The olive trees were in abundance in the area, the village covered the own needs for grapes and wine and commercial sailing boats crowded the bay. The modern Galaxidi still produces superb olives and extra virgin olive oil and now recreation sailing boat
s fill the small port. Only the vineyards disappeared due to the phylloxera insect, which destroyed the vines all over Europe. The majority of the vines in Galaxidi have then been replaced by olive trees, the easier cultivation. In the year 2012 began challenge and wine lover George Kammenos with the regeneration of an older vineyard in the area of Galaria (.3724033, E22.3044768), western of Galaxidi town, towards the small mountains. As an act of passion for Galaxidi, the nature and the wine, with no real business intensions. 2013 followed an expansion, also 2017 and 2018. The varieties of white Alexandria Muscat, Sauvignon Blanc, Malagouzia, Chardonnay and red Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Agiorgitiko have been set with the goal to produce over microvinifications a very limited quantity of seven different labels. Some more Galaria Estate facts:
• We gave our wines names of creatures living in the seas, triggered by the numerous founds of sea shells in the vineyard at an altitude of 80 meters over the sea.
• The grapes used for production originate exclusively from our small vineyard following a strictly vertical production, from the vine to the wine. We are the vine growers and the winemakers from a to z.
• For our vinifications we take advantage of the indigenous wild yeasts, keeping away the artificial, easier to work with ones. "Because the grapes might be the mother of the wine, but the yeasts are the father" and represent the terroir. The microclimate, the air, the vegetation, the objects, the soil.
• Our philosophy is ecological, that means we do not exclude but apply a minimum of plant protection, when and where necessary.
• Further we strictly do not use any animal deriving substances during vinification, declaring our wines as vegan.
• As conservation substances minimal sulphates are applied where necessary. In this matter the relative high alcohol percentage contributes as natural preservative.
