Cocktail party, wine tasting and guided tour at the Museum of Samos Wine
Samos is famous for its fine wines which is exported all over the world. The visit to the Μuseum of Samos Wine will include welcome cocktails and wine tasting.
In Samos, the United Winemaking Agricultural Cooperative of Samos (UWC)is one of the oldest cooperatives in Greece and owns one of the biggest wineries nationally. Nowadays, around 2.200 producers participate in the Cooperative.
The Cooperative was founded in 1934 after actions by the vine growers of the island. History shows that the alliance of the vine growers was fundamental for the preservation of viticulture and the protection of the producers’ income. To know more about UMC please click here.
The Museum of Samos Wine is housed in a magnificent 19th-century stone building, which originally operated as a private winery and later as a warehouse and barrel-making facility.
Turned into a Museum in 2005, it displays artifacts of the defining history of Samos wine: old photographs and production records, vineyards and depiction of mountain terraces, manual labor, harvesting and manual presses, aging and vinification, cellars, collectible bottles, barrel-making tools, old winemaking machinery as well as a series of awards and distinctions.
Its layout, a result of modern museum science, travels the visitor to the traditional vineyard cultivation of Samos. The exhibits tell the tale of the entire historical, social and cultural course of the Samian wine.
Traditional winemaking, tools, tanks, laboratory instruments, barrel-making tools, come alive through exhibits that go back over more than a century. Of particular interest is the depiction of the cultivation of the vineyards in dry-stone terraces. The huge wooden tanks, the most imposing exhibits, were in use until a few decades ago.
The Wine Museum is open to the public while wine tasting is also available. There is also a fully equipped conference room.
From November to April, the UWCS Museum of Samos wine will open for ORGANIZED VISITS by groups. The visits are prearranged and booked at tel.: +30 22730 87510 (ext. 539).
During that time, wine purchases can be made at the WINERY.
WINEMAKING FACILITIES & MUSEUM – UWC Samos samoswine.gr
The Museum will host the welcoming cocktail party of IDRiM2025 Conference in the afternoon of Sunday, September 28, 2025. During the party, participants will also have the opportunity for wine tasting and wine purchases.
Conference Dinner
Details will be announced soon!
Cultural Events
Documentary film “When the Calm Lights Up – Memories of Suzu in Noto, Ishikawa” and discussion with the director Mr. Hisashi Arima
Samos Wine Museum, Sunday, September 28, 2025, 20:50-22:30
A Short greeting message from Mr. Hisashi Arima
Let me introduce myself. I am Arima, the director of the film “When the Calm Lights Up – Memories of Suzu in Noto, Ishikawa”.
This documentary was filmed with the theme of recovery, first, from the strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6 that hit Suzu City in Ishikawa Prefecture on May 5, 2023. Suzu City had already experienced a major earthquake in June 2022, leaving the town devastated by repeated tremors.
In Suzu City, there is a traditional festival known as the “Kiriko Festival,” which is held once a year in various village communities. Many people in the city find “meaning in life” through this festival, living their daily lives for it. Through this cherished festival, we observed the town’s recovery. The people of Suzu City, undeterred by the earthquake damage, continued to prepare for this yearly festival, practicing their drums and moving forward with resilience toward recovery.
However, on January 1, 2024, another strong earthquake measuring 6 struck Suzu City. The damage was even more devastating than the previous year’s earthquake, and the town was left in ruins. I was also staying in Suzu to cover the atmosphere of recovery during the New Year holidays, and I was also affected by the disaster. Even after the disaster struck, I continued to live in evacuation shelters while collaborating with local residents and continued filming. Honestly, as a director, I am embarrassed to admit that I struggled to figure out what to film, but I somehow managed to compile the work. Through this film, I hope to convey what happened to Suzu City during this earthquake and what kind of place Suzu City was, is and will be.
For more information
https://readyfor.jp/projects/142054
Art exhibition “When Wounded Nature Produces Art”
by the visual artist Christos Koutsouras
Epicurean Cultural Center (Main Venue), from September 28 to October 1, 2025
The visual artist Christos Koutsouras, drawing inspiration from charcoal drawing, reverses the process and lets the “charcoal” of the burned trees of Samos “speak”. Now it is nature that controls the artistic result and speaks of its wounds, using art as its language of communication with humans.
Christos Koutsouras began this visual dialogue in 1995. His work was first presented in Cologne in 1997.
The second part of his work, in 2016, is an artistic intervention in another burned area of Samos, part of which is depicted in the exhibition’s photo and video. With a ten-year gap between the two visual narratives, Christos Koutsouras insists on showing the persistence of natural disasters as a result of human mistreatment and aims to raise our awareness. This work was presented in 2018 at an exhibition in Indianapolis, USA.
Unfortunately, as he says, he is preparing the third phase of this work. Nature remains wounded, and humans remain unconcerned…
Christos Koutsouras – Biography
The visual artist Christos Koutsouras was born in 1957 in Samos. From 1974 to 1980, he traveled with commercial ships to almost every continent, carrying with him the experience of places, people, and cultures as valuable material. He then studied in Germany, in Bonn and Cologne, focusing on drawing and painting from 1986 to 1991.
From 1998 to 2001, he taught drawing and painting at the University of Indianapolis in the United States. Since 1992, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and has held solo exhibitions in Cologne, Bonn, New York, Newport (Oregon), Seattle, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Astoria, and Denmark.
His works have also been exhibited at the “Alekton” gallery in Athens in 2001 and the same year at the Melina Merkouri Foundation.