ZOINOS WINERY

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Behind the creation of ZOINOS WINERY is the restless and pro-progressive spirit of the area’s winegrowers, who in 1954 founded the first small winery in Zitsa.

These efforts were strengthened by the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Ioannina and in 1974 it founded the first modern winery in the Northwest. of Greece, and while already since 1972 the wines of the Zitsa wine-growing zone from the white Debina variety have been legally recognized as PDO Zitsa wines.

In June 2006 the Winery takes the next decisive step, it is separated from the EAS of Ioannina and ZOINOS WINERY is created.

The company today, after the implementation of investment programs, has a fully modernized and visitable Winery as well as a distillery in Zitsa. It has expanded with the establishment of a distribution and customer service center in Ioannina, as well as a branch – winery in the wine-growing area of Patras.

ZOINOS WINERY employs around forty people, administrative staff, workers in the production process and quality control, as well as high-level oenologists, chemists and agronomists. It has an extensive sales network in the country, has developed partnerships with cooperatives in other regions, while its export activity remains steadily on the rise.

Its main partners remain the producers of the region, who, with the contribution of the company executives, apply modern cultivation methods, both for the native varieties, Debina, Vlachiko and Bekari, as well as for the international Chardonnay, Traminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah .

ZOINOS WINERY operates 250 hectares of organic vineyards with native varieties. In its experimental vineyard, 28 Epirotian varieties are tested with the aim of adapting them to the region, highlighting their wine potential and creating new wines.

At the research level, the company runs three programs. The two concern the recording, study and production of plant propagating material from Epirus varieties, their experimental vinification as well as the study of their wine characteristics. While the third concerns the tracking of its products.