Santorini Wine Tours: 20 Compared, from 110 to 620 EUR
Half of the twenty tours name a sunset in the title, two operators hold 75% of the reviews, and only two tours include lunch.
Half of the twenty Santorini wine tours name a sunset in the title, and two operators hold 75% of the 5,675 reviews. Those two facts explain most of what you see when you search for a Santorini wine tour: a long list of nearly identical four-hour evenings, from 110 to 620 EUR, that mostly promise three wineries and up to twelve tastings. This page takes the twenty apart. It shows what separates a 110 EUR tour from a 620 EUR one, where the wine is the product and where it is the excuse for the view, and how to read the grape, the basket-shaped vines and the sweet wine the guides keep talking about. The numbers come from the listings themselves, opened one at a time where the price or the title raised a question. It stays on the island; the Greek wine map beyond it is on the Greece page.
Prices are those on the listings on 30 September 2026. The private prices are as listed and may be for the booking, not per person: the listings cap a booking at 10 or 15 travelers and do not always say which unit the price uses, so check the booking page before you compare. Ratings are weighted by review count, which matters here because a handful of tours carry most of them.
Private 4-Hour Santorini Wine Tour by Luxury Vehicle: Three Wineries and a Light Meal
Travel in a luxury vehicle with only your own party and a guide who explains each stop, ending with a light meal at the last of three Santorini wineries.
Private Santorini Sunset Wine Tour: 4 Wineries, Sommelier, Full Bottle at Santo Wines
A private sommelier-led tour with four cellars, 10+ tastings, a tapas dinner and a full bottle at a reserved front-row table at Santo Wines at sunset.
Private Santorini Sunset Wine Tour: Koutsogiannopoulos, Argyros, Santo, Photos
Hotel pickup, three wineries from a 150-year-old cave winery to a cliffside finish at sunset, with the guide taking photos of the caldera and the sunset.
Private Santorini Wine Tour: Argyros, Gaia and Santo Wines, 4 Hours
Three Santorini wineries with a private guide: cellar visits at each, up to 15 volcanic wines and local snacks, on a four-hour tour by day or late afternoon.
Private Santorini Wine Tour: Exo Gonia, Argyros and Anhydrous, 12 Tastings
A local guide leads this private Santorini tour through three wineries, starting in a volcanic cave winery, with 12 wines and tapas to taste on the way.
Santorini 4-Hour Small-Group Wine Tour: Argyros, Anhydrous and Karamolegos Wineries
A local guide walks you through a volcanic-soil vineyard, then three cellars with 10-12 wines from Assyrtiko to Vinsanto, served with cheese and dry bread.
Santorini 4-Hour Sunset Wine Tour to Santo Winery with 12 Tastings, Tapas and Hotel Pickup
Four hours, three wineries and a cliff-top sunset at Santo, with 12 wine samples, an island tapas platter, winery admission and hotel transfers included.
Santorini Brewery and Wine Tour: Wines, Beers, Art Space and Argyros Estate
Starts at Santorini Brewing Company, then the Art Space cellars in Exo Gonia and Argyros Estate, with local cheeses and Greek delicacies paired to the tastings.
Santorini Daytime Wine Tour: 3 Wineries, Cellar Visits and 12 Tastings, 5 Hours
Three wineries chosen by availability from a list of seven estates, with cellar visits on how the wine is made, bottled and matured, over five hours by day.
Santorini Daytime Wine Tour for Up to 8: Sommelier, Two Wineries, Eight Wines, Lunch
A shared small-group day capped at 8 people: two traditional wineries with cellar tours, eight wines poured, and a local lunch led by a sommelier guide.
Santorini Half-Day Wine Tour to Three Wineries with 12 Tastings, Tapas and Sunset
Up to 12 wines at three traditional wineries, with a volcanic vineyard walk, cellar visits and a local cheese platter, on a half-day tour that ends at sunset.
Santorini Premium Wine Tour with Ten Wines, Gourmet Meal and Caldera Sunset
Sommelier-led tastings of ten volcanic wines at three high-end wineries, a full gourmet meal, and a final glass at a Caldera vantage point as the sun sets.
Santorini Seated Lunch: 6 Volcanic Wines, 6 Paired Dishes, Artemis Karamolegos
A fully seated lunch, not a bar tasting: six volcanic wines matched to six dishes, with vegetables and herbs from the winery's own garden, on Santorini.
Santorini Sunset Wine Tour for Up to 8 with a Sommelier, Three Wineries and Dinner
A shared small-group tour of up to 8 led by a sommelier: cellar visits at three wineries, ten wines including Nykteri and Vinsanto, and dinner to finish.
Santorini Three-Winery Tour by Mercedes Van with 12 Tastings, Megalochori and Oia Sunset
Tastings at Estate Argyros, Artemis Karamolegos and a family winery in Megalochori, travelling in a new Mercedes Vito, with sunset in Oia to finish the day.
Santorini Wine Museum and Three Winery Tour with Tastings, Morning or Afternoon Departure
Morning or afternoon departures with pickups across the island, a visit to a wine museum and snacks paired with the tastings at two selected wineries.
Santorini Wine Roads Signature Tour, Morning or Sunset, with Barrel Tasting
The operator's signature tour, led by a sommelier or wine expert, visits three selected wineries and lets all guests taste wine straight from the barrel.
Shared Santorini Wine Tour: Art Space, Estate Argyros and Venetsanos, 12 Wines
Tastings in pumice-carved chambers at a winery active since 1861, then a Megalochori winery above the caldera, with cheese and local snacks alongside.
Sip of Santorini Wine Tour: Hatzidakis, Koutsogiannopoulos Museum and Oia Sunset
Two wineries with about 8 samples, a cave wine museum eight meters below ground, and a sunset from Sun Spirit Bar, one of the best viewpoints in Oia, Santorini.
Small-Group Santorini Tour: Two Wineries and a Greek Meze Dinner, 5 Hours
Five hours with hotel pickup in a luxury vehicle: two wineries for volcanic wine tastings, then a meze menu with local wine at a traditional restaurant.
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Santorini wine tours: what the price buys
Read the chart across, not up. Twelve of the twenty tours last exactly four hours, and at that length the prices run from 110 to 620 EUR. Length therefore explains little. What separates the marks is whether the tour is shared or private, and what is on the plate. Shared tours stay inside a narrow band of 110 to 190 EUR, with a median of 165. Private tours start where the shared ones end, at 190 EUR, and climb to 620.
| Kind of tour | Listings | Price as listed | Median | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared, with a sunset | 7 | 110 to 180 EUR | 170 EUR | 4 to 6 hours |
| Shared, daytime | 7 | 110 to 190 EUR | 160 EUR | 2 to 4 hours |
| Private, with a sunset | 3 | 190 to 400 EUR | 300 EUR | 4 to 5 hours |
| Private, daytime | 3 | 230 to 620 EUR | 270 EUR | 4 to 5 hours |
A sunset adds about 10 EUR to the median of a shared tour, 170 against 160. On private tours the median gap is 30 EUR, 300 against 270, but the range is so wide, 190 to 620, that the median says little.
A 12-wine tasting is three wineries and a cheese plate
Five titles say "12 tastings" or "12 wines" and five name three wineries. The most reviewed tour of all, with 1,946 reviews and a 5.0 rating, is the template: three wineries on the island, up to twelve wines, a platter of local cheese and cold cuts, and a sunset. Its listing is careful on one point: the food is snacks, not a full lunch or dinner. It is adults only, the wines are mostly white because those are the typical wines of the island, and red and a dessert wine come too.
Compare that with the dearest tour, 620 EUR for four hours and three wineries with 12 to 14 wines and a light meal at the last one, in an electric vehicle. On paper that is the same shape as a 230 EUR private tour whose title also promises three wineries and twelve tastings, at little more than a third of the price. Whatever justifies the extra 390 EUR, it is not the number of glasses.
On Santorini the number in the title tells you how many glasses. It does not tell you how many of them you finish, or what you eat between them.
Kouloura, the vine that looks like a nest
The vines in the photo grow close to the ground in the dark volcanic soil, with a white village behind them. That low shape is the point. On Santorini the vines are trained into a kouloura, a woven basket-like crown that keeps the grapes low and out of the strong northern wind. The word is often translated as a basket, and the shape protects the grapes from the wind.
The consortium that promotes Santorini wine says the island's vines have never been hit by phylloxera, thanks to the sandy volcanic soil, and that some roots are up to 300 years old. Take the age as the producers' own claim, not an audited one. The soil is a mix of basalt, ash, sand, pumice and andesite, and the climate is Mediterranean, with morning fog from the caldera and strong northern winds.
Assyrtiko, nykteri and Vinsanto: three bottles to recognise
Almost every cellar on these tours will pour three styles. The first is dry white assyrtiko. The second is nykteri, a white made from grapes picked at night. The third is Vinsanto, the sweet wine. The rules that define them are the most precise facts about Santorini you can carry into a tasting room.
| Wine | Main grape | What the rules require |
|---|---|---|
| Dry white (PDO Santorini) | Assyrtiko | At least 85% Assyrtiko, the rest Athiri and Aidani, according to Wines of Greece |
| Nykteri | Assyrtiko-led | At least 13.5% alcohol and at least three months in wood |
| Vinsanto | Assyrtiko, at least 51% | Sun-dried grapes, at least 370 g/l sugar and at least 24 months of oxidative ageing |
The 110 EUR lunch at a winery shows how this looks in a glass. Its six wines are Aidani, a rosé, a Sauvignon Blanc, an Assyrtiko, a red and a Vinsanto, each with a dish. Only one of those six is the famous white, which is worth knowing if you are going for assyrtiko alone. The pairing includes marinated sea bass and grilled octopus, so the lunch feels like dinner more than a tasting.
The 110 EUR tours are two different things
Two tours cost 110 EUR, and they have nothing else in common. One is that seated lunch at a single winery, lasting 2 hours. Hotel pickup and drop-off is an extra 25 EUR per person, which takes the real cost to 135 EUR if you do not have a car. The other is the six-hour tour that visits two wineries for about eight samples, then watches the sunset from a bar in Oia. It has 61 reviews at 4.6, the lowest rating on the page. The first is a meal, the second a long evening. Either can be the right choice, but neither is the cheapest way to taste twelve wines.
Oia at the end of the day
The arch and white chapel in the photo are Oia, the village where the 110 EUR sunset tour ends its day. The six-hour 110 EUR tour finishes at a cocktail bar there, after a stop at a winery in Pyrgos and a cave wine museum eight metres below ground and 300 metres long.
Two things to plan. One popular listing says hotel pickups go to the closest accessible point, because parts of the island are on slopes that vehicles cannot reach. And for cruise passengers, at least one popular listing picks up at a McDonald's in Fira town, not at the port, so the cable car and the tender are yours to time.
Two operators, three quarters of the reviews
Santorini Day Tours has three listings and 42% of the reviews. My Santorini Tour has three and 33%. Together they hold 75% of the 5,675 reviews, and their two best tours alone, rated 5.0, account for 3,517, or 62%. That is the arithmetic behind the 4.97: it is the score of two tours. The other twelve operators share 1,385 reviews between them, with ratings from 4.6 to 5.0.
It is a good sign that the big tours earn their score with so much volume. It is not proof that a 4.6 tour is worse: the 61 reviews behind it are few. But when you choose among twenty nearly identical evenings, a rating backed by 1,900 reviews and one backed by 40 are not the same kind of evidence.
Santorini's vines in three dates
What the wine producers and the consortium give us to date the island's wine.
The origins
About 1600 BC
The Minoan eruption buries Akrotiri
Seeds and jars found there are part of the evidence for vines on the island. Wines of Greece says cultivation goes back at least 3,500 years.
The growth
1971
PDO Santorini is recognised
The denomination covers Santorini and Thirasia.
Today
Today
About 1,200 hectares under vine
The island's wineries sit in villages such as Exo Gonia, Pyrgos and Vothonas, where the tours stop.
Getting around, and drinking
Nineteen of the twenty tours offer hotel pickup, and on at least one it costs extra, which is what you want on a day that involves twelve glasses. Greece's limit for drivers is 0.5 g/l, and 0.2 for new and professional drivers. Driving yourself between three wineries therefore needs a designated driver. We have not checked the island's bus timetables and do not quote them.
If you book a tour for the sunset, read the food line. Only two of the twenty include lunch, and the most reviewed tour offers cheese and cold cuts, not a meal.
Questions about Santorini wine tours
Is a shared or a private Santorini wine tour better?
Shared tours cost 110 to 190 EUR and several name three wineries in the title. Private tours start at 190 EUR and reach 620 EUR. A private tour buys a flexible route and a smaller party. The glasses poured are about the same.
How many wines do I taste on a Santorini wine tour?
Usually up to 12 across three wineries. The most reviewed tour pours up to 12, the dearest 12 to 14, and the 110 EUR lunch pours six with food. The wines are mostly white, with some red and a dessert wine.
Is lunch included?
Only two list lunch, including the 2-hour one at 110 EUR. Some others name dinner, tapas or meze in the title, and the dearest tour serves a light meal at its last winery. On the most reviewed tour the food is cheese and cold cuts, so plan a meal after a sunset ending.
Can I visit wineries on Santorini from a cruise ship?
Some tours accept cruise passengers. The most reviewed one meets guests at a fast-food restaurant in Fira town, not at the port, and says the start and end times may shift. Leave a wide margin, because refunds close within 24 hours of departure.
What is Vinsanto?
A sweet wine from sun-dried grapes, made mainly from assyrtiko. The rules ask for at least 370 g/l of sugar and at least 24 months of ageing. Most tours pour it last, sometimes with a dessert.
Is it worth visiting a winery on my own instead of a tour?
If you have a car and a designated driver, possibly. The wineries are in villages the listings name, and one tour sells a seated lunch at a single winery from 110 EUR. We have not verified walk-in tasting prices, so we do not quote them.
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Data verified on. Prices, reviews, lengths and inclusions read from the 20 listings on 30 September 2026. Wine rules from Wines of Greece and its Santorini entry.