Evangelos Chatzivaritis of AOA CHATZIVARITIS SA presented on their organic wine production best practices. They have been operating an organic vineyard and winery since the early 1980s. Their production process is primarily manual with a focus on ensuring high quality grapes. Their facility has winemaking, bottling, and aging areas. They have won several national and international awards for their wines. The winery promotes sustainability and social responsibility through organic practices, renewable energy use, and cultural/accessibility events.

1. “DEVELOPING EUROPEAN INTERCLUSTER
ALLIANCE FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE PROJECT”
CLOSING CONFERENCE
Aegean Exporters’ Associations
AOA CHATZIVARITIS SA - Best Practice-3
Evangelos Chatzivaritis
Izmir, 18th of October 2012

2. Brief history
The idea of creating the Chatzivaritis estate
emerged in the early of 1980s
In 1994 a 5 hectares vineyard was planted
In 2001 another five-hectare plot was planted
and a year later an experimental vineyard started
for the purpose of trying out new varieties

3. To make good wine
must have excellent quality
grapes
• Organic production
• Most of the work is done manually
• Techniques are applied to ensure better
quality

4. Winery’s premises…..
single-store building with a basement, with an overall area of 1,000
sq.m
In the production area, there are 19 stainless-steel winemaking
tanks
a bottling, corking and labeling section.
a fully-equipped chemical laboratory
A maturing and aging of wines basement

5. Red wines

6. White wines
•

7. awards
• Gold Medal at the 9th
International Thessaloniki
Wine Competition, for the 2007
harvest and Bronze at the
Decanter world wine
competition 2012,
• silver medal at the MUNDUS
VINI Biofach Competition 2011 for
the 2009 harvest
• silver medal at the 12th
International Thessaloniki Wine
Competition for the 2010 harvest.

8. awards
•
• Commented wine
at the
Decanter world
wine competition
2012

9. awards
• Silver medal at the
2012 International
Women’s wine
competition USA

10. Braille Writing System in our
labels…
Braille is a writing system
which enables blind
and partially sighted
people to read and
write through touch.
It is just the alphabet
and numbers,
designed to be read
by fingers rather than
eyes.

11. Events
 Celebration of the distillation of the tsipouro
 Open doors
 Open winery
 Organization of different cultural events

12. Promotion activities
 Participation to exhibitions
 Participation to promotional activities
 Participation to clusters /associations /
organizations

13. The company follows an
environmental , social
and cultural friendly
policy in general…
• Organic Production
• Implementation of investments for the use
of renewable resources for energy
• Use of Braille Writing System in Product
Labels
• Cultural activities
• Construction of facilities for the access of
disabled people in the winery and the
facilitation of the movement and product

14. Thank you very much
Chatzivaritis estate
6th klm Goumenissa – Giannitsa, 61300 Goumenissa
Tel.:+(30)2343041236 winery, +(30)2310215259 office
Fax: +2310218741
Mobile phone: 00306972200102 & 0030 6977469030
e-mail: info@chatzivaritis.gr & infothes@itd.gr &
E.hatzivaritis@itd.gr
Website: www.chatzivaritis.gr