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Katogi Averoff: a cellar of 1,200 barrels

  • 14 min on foot
  • All year
  • 1 hour; the tour lasts 30 minutes
A blue-lit glass floor over rows of bottles between barrels in the Katogi Averoff cellar.
In the Katogi Averoff cellar

Photo: Dimkoa · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

HOW FAR
14 minOn foot · 1.0 km
TIME NEEDED
1 hour; the tour lasts 30 minutes
BEST MONTHS
All year
WHERE
Katogi Averoff

In the late 1950s Evangelos Averoff planted what the winery calls Greece's first Cabernet Sauvignon here. The Yiniets vineyards, Vlach for 'vineyard', grow at 950–1,050 metres, and since 2024 'the vineyard and wine traditions of Metsovo – Katogi Averoff' are listed in Greece's National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The 30-minute tour goes through a cellar of more than 1,200 oak barrels.

WHO IT SUITS

  • couples
  • a rainy or snowy day, without the car

PRACTICAL

Open daily 10:00–16:00, last tour at 15:00. Tastings must be booked at least a day ahead (+30 26560 31490). The winery says bears once ate almost a third of the Traminer harvest, and still visit the vines.

A CAVEAT

'Greece's first Cabernet Sauvignon' is the winery's own claim; always attribute it.

Official website · katogiaveroff.gr

SOURCES

Checked on 25 October 2026.

STAY IDEAS

Stay ideas that include it

Úna suite in the evening: a hand holds a glass of rosé in front of the double bed with its carved wooden headboard

All year2 nights, Friday to Sunday

Úna · a glass of rosé by the bed

A Katogi wine weekend

The cellar of 1,200 barrels is a 14-minute walk from our gate, on the level.

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