Santorini is an iconic Greek gem known for its sparkling blue waters, beautiful architecture, and cliffside villages, but it also offers something just as captivating: wine.

In fact, thanks to its unique volcanic soil and indigenous grape varieties, it offers some of the most distinctive wines on the planet. While you can go out on your own and see what you encounter, I’d argue that the best way to experience the local wine scene is to take a wine tour.

I’ve come up with a comprehensive guide to the 5 top Santorini wine tours available, that are well worth your time and money. Let’s get started!

Best Wine Tours in Santorini

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Meeting Location:	Hotel pickup and drop-off included	Hotel pickup and drop-off included	Hotel, port, or airport pickup and drop-off included
Tour Length:	4.5 hours	3 to 4 hours	4 hours
Start Time(s):	3:30 PM & 4:00 PM	Between 10:00 AM & 5:00 PM	4:00 PM
What’s Included:	Two wineries, wine tastings, snacks, wifi on board, air-conditioned private transport, gift box with Ouzo	Bottled water, wine tasting of 12 varieties, air-conditioned vehicle, private transportation	Photos taken by guide, private transport, alcoholic beverages, snacks, bottled water, air-conditioned vehicle
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Our 5 Top Picks For The Best Santorini Wine Tour:

1. Santorini Wine Tour with 10 Wine Tastings and Oia Sunset
2. Wine Tour in Santorini with Private Guide, Wine Museum and Tasting
3. Santorini Private Wine Tour at Sunset with Tastings and Pictures
4. Santorini Private Wine Tour
5. Santorini Wine Tour with Sunset in Oia

Santorini Wine Tour Reviews

1. Santorini Wine Tour with 10 Wine Tastings and Oia Sunset

What to Expect on the Tour

If you’re looking for a seamless way to enjoy some of Santorini’s best wineries and arguably one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world, look no further. The Santorini Wine Tour with 10 Wine Tastings and Oia Sunset experience has you covered, with an expert guide and driver to make sure everything goes off without a hitch.

On this adventure, you’ll not only sip a lot, but try plenty of different snacks, and learn a ton about the culture and history surrounding local wine!

With 2 educational, lovely visits to 2 different wineries and a trip to Oia for a breathtaking sunset along with your guide, it has all the makings of a wonderful afternoon. With a small group setting, it feels like longtime friends exploring and sampling amazing wine, with a knowledgeable guide there to share info about the different styles and history behind them.

What Makes This Tour Great

I can’t think of a way to do this outside of a tour like this that would allow you to see this much in just 4.5 hours! With all transportation included (including hotel pickup and drop-off), all you have to focus on is this amazing experience, enjoying great wine, views, and company.

Our guide was phenomenal, sharing plenty of educational commentary about the region and its wine, as well as plenty of laughs. We first stopped at the Estate Argyros where we tried 4 types of wine before visiting Artemis Karamolegos Winery, which has been around for around 70 years.

While learning about and tasting their fine selection of wine along with some tasty snacks, we appreciated the incredible vistas all around us. As if the evening couldn’t get any better, we were then taken to the stunning village of Oia where we soaked up the jaw-dropping sunset! I can’t recommend this tour enough to anyone – newbies or seasoned Santorini visitors.

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2. Wine Tour in Santorini with Private guide, Wine Museum and Tasting

What to Expect on the Tour

If you’ve ever been to Santorini before, you’ll know what a struggle it can be to navigate it by car! It’s winding, narrow roads can be challenging, and driving on your own is not something I recommend for any visitor.

The Wine Tour in Santorini with Private Guide, Wine Museum and Tasting experience removes that worry from the equation, transporting you seamlessly with convenient door-to-door service.

Learn about Santorini’s unique volcanic solid which helps produce wine unlike any found anywhere else. Expect to try 3 tastings of 4 distinct wines, including a visit to the fascinating underground wine museum Koutsogiannopoulos!

The wineries were clearly chosen by a professional who knows what they’re doing, as they all offered something special and different from the rest. With local cheeses and snacks there as well, it’s a complete experience perfect for going on before dinner!

What Makes This Tour Great

It’s no secret that Santorini is incredible, but I think it was this tour that made me realize just how much. After being picked up from our hotel, our guide chatted with us and brought us over to the Wine Museum Koutsogiannopoulos which is actually in a cave, literally displaying the kind of lives vine growers had over hundreds of years, all the way to the 1600s.

Learning about the struggles behind this local industry and what it’s required to be successful somehow only made our wine taste even better. After 4 tastings of wine underground, we went to the Estate Argyros which is a more “polished” experience, where we went on a fabulous tour of their vineyards before trying 4 of their vintages along with tasty cheeses and breadsticks.

Venetsanos Winery was next, perched on a cliffside overlooking the Santorini caldera, and seeing this breathtaking view with delicious food and wine felt like something out of a fairytale.

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3. Santorini Private Wine Tour at Sunset with Tastings and Pictures

What to Expect on the Tour

Whether you’re touring alone, with that special someone, a friend group, or family, this next tour should be at the top of your list. It’s perfect for special celebrations like anniversaries, birthdays, etc., with postcard-perfect views, visits to traditional and modern wineries, and plenty of flowing bottles.

The Santorini Private Wine Tour at Sunset with Tastings and Pictures will leave you with amazing mementos to take back home with you to look back on fondly for years to come.

As you can probably deduce from the name, this is an entirely private experience, so you don’t have to worry about big groups or lots of other people you aren’t familiar with. Learn all about the different winemaking techniques from various winery visits and experience guided tastings with sommeliers (and in some cases, winemakers, themselves)!

What Makes This Tour Great

If you really want to get to know Santorini’s wine scene (and enjoy fantastic views while doing it), this tour is a fantastic choice. You’ll get to see quite possibly the most versatile selection of wineries and tour some of the more exclusive, BTS areas most visitors don’t get to see.

I mean, you’re going to be seeing an underground winery in a CAVE, the cutting-edge Estate Argyros, and one that melds the traditional with the new: Venetsanos. Our guide was a lovely host, sharing plenty of educational info as well as adventurous stories and anecdotes, further enriching our time together.

You can tell how passionate they are, learning about the winemaking process to the region’s history – the picturesque scenery only added to the charm. Whether you consider yourself a wine aficionado or a complete newbie who simply enjoys beauty and relaxation, this is a must-do!

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4. Santorini Private Wine Tour

What to Expect on the Tour

The Santorini Private Wine Tour is an intimate, personalized experience ideal for those who’d like to go about exploring the island’s wine at their own pace with expert guidance and transport.

While there’s nothing wrong with tours that aren’t private, I believe that in a place like Santorini, with tight roads and smaller spaces in general, there’s something to be said for more exclusive excursions. You’ll experience some of their most respected boutique wineries that wouldn’t be possible with a larger group, for example.

Expect a guide who’s a true connoisseur of the local wine culture, transporting you door-to-door to hand-selected wineries for tours and tastings. See the Santorini Wine Museum, the Art Space Gallery – Winery – Museum for their unique BIO wines, and then the majestic Venetsanos Winery with the best vistas around.

What Makes This Tour Great

As this is a private tour, you’ll enjoy the undivided attention from your friendly expert wine guide who takes you to 3 spectacular wineries. With the flexibility to linger a bit longer, you’ll be able to ask questions and learn about the subtle differences in local varietals, making it a perfect intro for wine enthusiasts and newbies.

At the Santorini Wine Museum, you’ll see how they make their Crazy Donkey beer, taking you all the way from growing the grapes to properly tasting a glass! I thought the Art Space Gallery/Winery/Museum was interesting and it was the only wine tour in Santorini that stopped here, where we tried 3 traditional wines.

It feels like you’re going back in time here, where they blend wine, caves, and art dating back to the 1800s. The stop at Venetsanos Winery was the cherry on top, learning even more about their winemaking methods while sampling their incredible wine and enjoying cliffside views of the volcano!

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5. Santorini Wine Tour with Sunset in Oia

What to Expect on the Tour

The Santorini Wine Tour with Sunset in Oia is unlike the rest in that you’ll visit different bars and wineries, showing you some slightly “less conventional” places than what many standard tours offer. This is a wonderful intro to the Santorini wine scene, which is great for discovering which ones are your favorites so you can go back and explore them further later on in your trip.

With an amazing tour guide who explains everything along the way, you’re going to learn a ton about the different varietals, flavor profiles, and the history behind each location.

The first stop was Hatzidakis Winery in the famous Pyrgos Kallistis village sitting 330 meters above sea level, with a very interesting design and perhaps even more impressive view. Then, we learned all about winemaking at the wine museum, before stopping at Oia’s Sun Spirit Bar for quite possibly the best sunset views on the entire island.

What Makes This Tour Great

This is the longest tour on this guide, but in my opinion, it’s also the most comprehensive. I’d recommend this tour to anyone who even slightly enjoys wine, which will surely offer a new perspective on the beverage.

Our tour guide was personable, welcoming, and clearly had ample experience, moving everything along smoothly while regaling us with intriguing anecdotes and historical accounts as we traveled.

I’d recommend the wine museum to literally anyone as it’s so fascinating and educational, though in this tour setting you do get more “VIP” access to certain features. With a small group tour setting, you really do feel more like a local experiencing everything rather than a tourist.

You get to try and learn about a TON of delicious wines, and your guide will ensure you have the perfect viewing spot to watch the sunset in Oia to wrap up a perfect day.

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Shayanne DeCastro

Shayanne is a freelance writer, wine snob and marketer based in LA, California. Describing herself as a nomad, she has lived in many different cities including Boise, Idaho and Seattle, Washington as well as Guadalajara, Mexico. She is forever on the move.

Being an extremely active person, she loves to snowboard, skateboard, and ski. She enjoys sharing her love for active sports with others through her “how to” sports guides as well as food and wine reviews. Her love for wine and good food shines through every paragraph. While she travels, Shayanne loves to try new restaurants and wineries.  If there is a wineries or good restaurant in your town, you will probably meet her one day.