Wine Tasting Walking Tour in Old Town Chania
Description
This is a must-do wine-tasting tour you should do on your first day in Chania. We meet at Anassa Boutique Hotel and Cafe on the Old Venetian Harbor. Here you’ll learn a bit about wine tasting while sipping 2 wines with a direct view of the lighthouse. A small snack accompanies the wines. Your guide will point out our favorite spots for lunch, dinner, wine and cocktails along the harbor. Kritamon Wine Bar & Restaurant is our next stop where you’ll taste 2 more wines with a snack. You’ll be enchanted by the small little streets behind the harbor, or as we call them “ta stenakia.” Next, we’ll walk to Splantzia Square, a neighborhood with tremendous historical significance. Two more Cretan wines are sampled with a small snack paired with it. Last stop is at a local wine shop to taste one last wine, a sweet dessert wine made in the ancient liasto method. Here you can shop for any wines you liked throughout the wine tasting tour.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Wine tasting and snacks with a view of the lighthouse.
Wine Tasting and snack at Kritamon
We'll visit Platanos restaurant for wine tasting and a snack.
Our last stop is a wine shop where you can purchase the wine we tasted.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(22)
A fantastic tour of the old town that gave us insight into Crete’s wine, culture and general knowledge of wine tasting. Skillful and very nice guide. We were 3 adult ladies in our group as well as another family. It was excellent and we can warmly recommend this.
AbFab wine walk with Anastasia! She was super easy going and very knowledgable about cretan wines. She showed us a great selection of wine bars, we're back at the Kritamon right now, and we got to taste and learn a lot about the uniqe grapes of Crete. Also told us a lot about the City of Chania, really interesting! It was an advantage to us that the guide we're greek-american and was american speaking. All in all a 5 star experience and we would really recommend Anastasia and the tour!
We were on a trip with Stella, around the old town of Chania. Stella told about the city, its history and its food culture. We were at 3 restaurants and get some tasting on some specialties. First place we got pulled pork, though not in the traditional sense, but more like burnt ends, tasted great, and some local wine to. At another place, got will cheese table and wine to. Nice and nice place by the water. We finished with dinner at a restaurant in the small streets. Here we got 5 dishes, all of which were delicious, and wine to. All in all a lovely evening.
I enjoyed this tour, the wines were delicious, the host was funny and knowledgeable, would have liked slightly more history about Crete, but it was very well organised, she was very passionate and it was a great tour I’d recommend to anyone!
Very fun experience! Anastasia was very informative and made the trip amazing. Walk was easy and takes you through some of the beautiful areas of Old Town Chania. Perfect wine tour for beginner wine enthusiasts. She makes the experience comfortable and interesting! Anastasia was even able to give us some lunch recommendations after our tour. I would 100% recommend this experience.
A great wee tour round Chania sampling some gorgeous local wines and food. A good pace and just enough wine to get a taste for more. Great to stop at the wine shop at the end. No pressure to buy but lots of info and advice if you want to. Anastasia was fun, informative and relaxed. Perfect group size of five. Highly recommended
Brilliant tour. Lovely wines and snacks. Anastasia was charming, knowledgeable and funny. Loved every minute of this tour
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Anastasia was a charming host and her presentation was not in the least pretentious. We tried some really nice wines and ate some delicious snacks and got a real feel of what Chania has to offer.
One of the best wine tours we’ve been on. Anastasia was fantastic - funny and passionate teaching us about the history of the wines and Greece without getting too into the details. The walk helped us get our bearings around Chania too. Every place provided snacks which paired great with the wines - they even accommodated my gluten free dietary restriction. Absolutely fantastic - highly recommend!
We had a delightful wine tour with Anastasia. Our group of 9 family members all agreed that she provided the best education on wines and tastings that we have ever experienced. She presented the information in such a way that we were all comfortable asking questions and sharing our impressions of the wine. Not only were we able to sample a variety of wines, but we can also use this knowledge in the future. We would love to return to Crete and do a longer experience with Chania Wine Tours in the countryside.
