Mitravelas winery is the oldest winery of Nemea. It is located in the center of the city and it was founded at 1913. Mitravelas Brothers at start were producing small quantities of bulk wine.
At 1945 Andrew Mitravelas took the lead and gradually increased the annual production until 2003. Then his son Konstantinos decided to take advantage of his father’s and his own long-time experience on the vine cultivation in combination with updated oenological techniques and new equipment, so as to create two labels: "Mitravelas Estate" and "Red on Black".
Since then, both wines have been awarded several medals in international contests while the winery has a trade representative company for the Greek market and has already expanded to markets like United States, England, Holland, Cyprus and Germany.
In 2010, for the first time, a white wine is introduced to the range, “Lefkes” (which means “aspen tree” in Greek, and is the tree that, when it blooms, introduces spring to the area the winery is situated). On 2011, Konstantinos Mitravelas decided to produce a super-premium wine, from two specific, very old vineyards (45-55 years old) that would become the star wine of the range. A value-for-money red wine, “New Red” was introduced in 2013.
The vineyards are placed around the region of Nemea, mostly on the hillsides.
Konstantinos owns and cultivates 75.000 sq.m. in which he minimizes the yield in order to maximize the quality. In addition to these, the Estate has signed, longterm agreements for the exclusive cultivation and yielding of 300.000 sq.m. more.
Moreover, specifically speaking for his premium red wine, “Mitravelas Estate”-along with the new super-premium wine of the range called “Old Vineyards”- the vines that are used are over 40 years old.