Ktima Apostolidi

Our story begins in 1958, when Efthymios Apostolidis planted the first vineyard in Dialekto, Kavala, on the foothills of the Macedonian mountain basin near the Nestos River and Thrace. Due to the difficulties of that time, wine production was carried out amateurishly. In 1981, his son, Ioannis Apostolidis, took over the vineyard with determination. By 2003, production had reached 3 hectares. A new page opened in 2007 with the founding of an ultra-modern, visitor-friendly winery spanning 10 hectares. Soon, the third generation of the winery, Vasiliki and Efthymios Apostolidis, took the reins of the business. The winery embarked on new, strict, and quality-driven goals, with innovative methods in the vineyard and the cellar. Today, the family’s 16 hectares of vineyards are cultivated biodynamically.

Biodynamics (Greek Bios for life and Dinamikòs for movement) is a working method for the renewal of agriculture, which is based on the principles of anthroposophy. The Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner founded this worldview and image of the human being at the beginning of the 20th century. According to the anthroposophical stance, a farm operates like a self-sufficient microcosm with a diversity of plants and animals. Even in cultivated nature, there is a closed cycle between the soil, the plants, and nature. As a winery, we have set ourselves the goal of preserving and expanding this complex ecosystem and making it our ally. USE OF THE FORCES OF NATURE We consider a vineyard to be a living organism. Behind this lies a complex ecosystem in which the microcosm is related to the macrocosm. Taking into account the rhythms and cycles of nature, that is, the cosmic influences such as those of the sun, the moon, or the stars, we use their forces for ourselves. In this way we work with, and not against, nature and operate for successful agriculture. In the 21st century, we humans have forgotten how to understand and use the knowledge taught to us by our ancestors, from thousands of years of observations, to accomplish our work.

For us, wine is a sum of different components that must be researched, discovered, and connected to each other. Connected with nature, it challenges us to adapt to it, to take risks in order to always improve quality. It takes the will to persistently try to discover nature and ourselves. Thus, if we want to highlight vibrancy, freshness, and precision in our wines in the future, we must understand the natural conditions and play with different components with respect for the environment.