Winepresses of Agios Antonios
(Savopoulos Vineyard)
An impressive huge winepress (capacity: 200 loads of grapes) weighing about 400 tons with carved trough, exists Inside Savopoulos vineyard. This monolith is a large piece of marly limestone which broke and fell off the parent rock above it.
The winepress is located at an altitude of approximately 500 meters, with dimensions 3.90 x 3.40-2.80 x 1.20-0.90m and a large carved trough with dimensions 1.65 x 0.82 x 0.92m, joined through a carved faucet with “decorative carving”, closed outside. On the rocks south and around the winepress there are poles to tie the animals which carried the grapes and on that side of the winepress there is a carving to which, probably, had been adapted a mechanism to lift the containers carrying the grapes into the winepress.
This is an emblematic monument in a location with a view towards the famous Agios Thomas wine land, surrounded by vineyards, in an attempt to revive its winemaking past.