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Santorini Small-Group Cooking Class and Wine Tasting
Santorini, Greece
Discover the crisp wine of Santorini and learn how to cook melt-in-the-mouth Greek dishes on a 6-hour food and wine tour of the island. With a local guide, you’ll visit two traditional wineries to sample up to eight glasses of the local wine and learn about Santorini’s volcanic soil. Help a local chef prepare classic Greek delicacies and island specialities with more wine. Numbers are limited to eight on this small-group tour, ensuring personalized attention.
Start your Santorini food tour with a hotel pickup, and then relax on the short transfer to a local vineyard that’s etched into the mountainside on volcanic soil. Producing some of Santorini’s renowned volcanic wine, the vineyard relies on mineral-rich aspa (the region's unique soil) that helps create wine with crisp notes and distinctive high acidity.
After sampling some of the wine, continue to your second traditional Santorini winery to learn more about the various types of Santorini wine that is produced on the island. Hear about assytriko, a widely cultivated white-wine grape, as well as wines such as nykteri and vinsanto that are both made from assytriko but boast entirely different flavors.
After visiting the winery, it's time for your cooking class. Meet the chef, and then roll up your sleeves to help out with the preparation of several Santorini dishes. As you cook, listen to stories about the country’s gastronomy from your chef and learn about the typical dishes of Santorini. While the dishes cooked during your class will vary each time, you can expect to cook some Santorini staples such as tomato fritters, Greek salad and pork with vinsanto.
Toward the end of your session, sit down with your chef and group to eat your creations. Water is served alongside the dishes, and you can also try the vinsanto to finish your meal like a local.
Before bidding your chef a fond farewell, take a recipe card to recreate the dishes back at home. Then, return to your minibus and finish your Santorini food experience with a hotel drop-off.
Stephanos our guide picked us up near our hotel exactly at the arranged hour and took us on a tour of some of the Santorini wineries displaying his encyclopedic knowledge of the wine world at every turn. The cooking class itself was great fun and we brought home new recipes that will become part of our mealtime repertoire. The group itself was eight in number, with members from the US, Germany, Denmark, and Finland, all agreeable sorts that quickly became new friends. Overall a great experience and worth the price of admission.
Review by: Tom D, September 2017
Wonderful experience! We enjoyed the tour guide, the small group 4 couples altogether, the chance to learn about Greece's viticulture, and the great tasting experience at Boutari Winery. We made Greek Santorini salad, tomato fritters, fava, and pork fillet in vinsanto sauce, and ate a leisurely meal afterward. The tour was 6 hours long and it was well worth the time. I would do this tour again!
Review by: Ricardo M, September 2017
Must do. Very great tour guide , also great meal no rush , all the wine you want to drink. Perfect
Review by: cmhelm7, August 2017
Michael's knowledge of wine, food and Santorini culture was fantastic
Review by: Stephen T, August 2017
This was an amazing day. The guide was a fun, young wine expert who had gotten a college degree in the subject and truly knew what he was talking about. The day was arranged beautifully, starting with a larger winery to cover the basics of the unique aspects of Santorini wine and initial tastings, then a family winery to show the more traditional ways of making wine and to get a different taste. We then split off to do the cooking class at the restaurant at the last winery, and were lucky enough to be the only couple there that day. The two chefs were so much fun, answered every question whether food-related or Greece-related with a smile, and were incredibly patient and thoughtful. We used fresh local ingredients to make a Santorini-style Greek salad, then Greek tomato fritters, and then finally pork medallions glazed in a saw based on a port-like local wine served over a pureed yellow split-pea base. And then we had the pleasure of eating our creation while being served a series of that winery's wines. A wonderful day with great people and amazing wine and food followed by our best naps in years.
Review by: Arun S, April 2017
One of the best tours we took in Greece! Amazing tour guide who knew so much about the history of wine!
Review by: Lori D, February 2017
This tour was so much fun. We got to visit 3 vineyards, a beer tasting and had so much fun with the cooking class. The class then got to sit and enjoy the beautiful meal we created along with the delicious Santorini wines. Our tour guide was AWESOME! He was so much fun and made the whole day just a perfect 10!
Review by: Rachel W, January 2017
the tour was interesting - very nice that the guide did not push wine purchases, but was very knowledgeable and helpful when requested. He made a suggestion that really impressed our native Greek host later in our trip! I would recommend the meal as well as it's interesting to see what goes into the wonderful food you've been eating. It was a full course meal, so no dinner needed or wanted that night!
Review by: thuatto, October 2016
The white wines were great! The vineyards aren't particularly pretty since they need to grow the grapes lower to the ground. The food we cooked was really good and fun! If you are limited on time in Santorini, I would do the sunset catamaran tour and/or a private driving/walking tour before I did this excursion but this was still fun.
Review by: mamabatt, October 2016
We really enjoyed to tour. Our guide was wonderful and extremely knowledgeable about the different wines. We also enjoyed to cooking class and loved everything that we prepared. I would definitely recommend this tour.
Review by: David R, October 2016
This was an excellent introduction to the unique vinticulture of Santorini, and a great education for my palate and olfactory senses. There were just four of us in the cooking class and we whipped up four great local dishes: Santorini salad, fava bean puree, pork cutlets vinsanto, and tomato fritters. Good wine, good food and good company....all in all a perfect day.
Review by: Crystal H, September 2016
My husband and I very much enjoyed this day tour. We learned, we sampled, we cooked, and we would highly recommend!
Review by: Amie L, July 2016
I think this tour was really worth doing, you drink a lot of wine, and our tour guide Ilias was amazing. However if the cooking part is what you're after as it was for us, you don't actually do much cooking, just a bit of chopping with plastic knives. It makes sense really - as you've been drinking wine - best not to go to close to hot oil or sharp knives. I might have booked a trip without the wine tour in order to really get cooking. In saying that, we still had a great time, and it was great watching Chef Mario work and share stories with us.
Review by: Kelly J L, July 2016
One of the BEST things to do on Santorini! It was incredible.
Review by: Lene R, May 2016
My son and Ioved this tour. The guide was very knowledgable and interesting. The wine and food was amazing. The tour was well organized and the transportation was comfortable.
Review by: Megan B, November 2015
Highly recommended. It was even better than we had hoped it would be. Our tour guide was exceptional - very knowledgable!! The cooking class was our favorite part, and the meal was decided the best one we had in all of Greece!!!
Review by: oberon_magus, October 2015
Dennis and Chef Chris were amazing. There were copious amounts of food and wine and we will definitely be making some of the recipes at home. Dennis was very knowledgeable about the wines.
Review by: Kristin L, September 2015
Dennis as the best wine tour guide that I have ever had. I have done a lot of wine tours, but he was truly the best. He was engaging and extremely knowledgeable. And the cooking class was wonderful followed by an amazing meal. _br/_
I would suggest this to anyone.
Review by: alan.gower, September 2015
What an indulgent way to spend a day! Beautiful wines and amazing food! We learnt so much about wine tasting and the different wines specific to Santorini. Our tour guide was so friendly and knowledgable. We visited three wineries which included cellar tours and nibbles/food pairings. Tour ended with a cooking class at the final winery Artemis Karamolegos. Chef was a superb teacher and we had so much fun. We got a copy of the recipes we cooked. Following this the chef then prepared a three course meal for the group which was absolutely divine! The tour went for approx 8 hours instead of 5 so don't make dinner reservations for after the tour, you won't need it anyway with the constant wine top ups and bountiful food! Highly recommend this tour!
Review by: Bernadette, September 2015
WE HAD A GREAT DAY, BEAUTIFUL WINE KNOWLEDGABLE GUIDE COOKING CLASS WAS FUN BUT WOULD HAVE LIKED MORE ENVOLVEMENT WITH THE PREP AND COOKING, OVERHAUL A FUN DAY.
Review by: SM W, September 2015
Great days,lots of information.fantastic food and wine
Review by: Brent C, August 2015
Denis was incredible. You will not regret booking this super intimate, incredibly educational, but mostly fun wine tour and cooking class. You can do, eat and drink as much as you like or as little as you like. The scenery is incredible and the guide can't be beat. Worth every penny end of story.
Review by: Rebecca C, July 2015
The tour and our guide was amazing. The wine tour and cooking class were great. They exceeded our expectations. We would highly recommend it. The guide also took us for a beer tasting at Donkey Brewing and to the highest point of the island. These were nice additions to our trip. Wonderful day.
Review by: Mike A, July 2015
The wine tour was good but not great however we enjoyed our time with the group of people and the wines were good. They were mostly white wines, so if you only like red, this may not be the tour for you. The cooking class was disappointing as we only got to chop vegetables and not really cook. The chef does the cooking and you mainly just watch. The food was very good and the restaurant is very quaint and nice. The tour was suppose to be five hours but we were there for seven hours. Our tour guide took the group who did not do the cooking class home as we were finishing up and then when he returned he sat in the back to eat a meal. We were left to wait longer then should have been necessary. This could be a great tour but it definitely needs changes to be made.
Review by: Kendra P, June 2015
What a blast! Our driver and wine guide, Eliassp? was extremely knowledgable and fun. We visited Boutari and Gavalas for tours and education and then Karamegalos for wine and cooking class. We ate while cooking and then were surprised to be seated for another meal of all of the foods we helped prepare. It was too much food, but an amazing experience. We enjoyed meeting the other six people on the tour with us and are greatful that the experience taught us so much about Santorian wine.
Review by: jennifer b, June 2015
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Amanda P, June 2015
Really awesome, thorough tour that covered all must-see attractions. The tour guide was very knowledgeable
Review by: csichergeorge, May 2015
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Alison N, April 2015
The only issue I had was trying to find the meeting point... We were supposed to meet near a hotel, but addresses don't exist there, which made it super difficult. Luckily, after we missed the mini bus, we called from our hotel and they sent a driver back for us!
Review by: Paige P, June 2014
We had a fantastic time! We went with a small group to two wineries, which was fun to meet new people. The guide was great and very knowlegdgable about the vinyards. The two of us then broke off from the group for a private cooking class on the beach! We had a blast and the food was amazing!_br/_
- Paige (Los Angeles, California)
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