Kontozisis Estate: A Tale of Organic Farming and Low-Intervention Winemaking in Thessaly
By Olga Antoniadou
I first tasted Kontozisis Estate wines at the 2022 Bacchae Wine Festival in Athens, and since then, I've wanted to present the winery. I felt a certain sense of pride about the winery because Kanalia, where it is located in Thessaly, Central Greece, is just a stone's throw away from my late father-in-law's village, Fanari. I was supposed to have a quick chat with Aphrodite Toussia about the winery, but her enthusiasm took me, and we ended up talking for quite a while on Skype. Andreas Kontozisis, her husband, and his father and brother decided to plant vines in 1991 in a place that used to be a vineyard but had long been abandoned. The area once thrived, but after the 1950s, people started moving towards the cities, and the population slowly dwindled. Kanalia is situated at 340 m elevation in the northeastern foothills of the Agrafa mountain range, about 14 km from the city of Karditsa.
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