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The Wine and Vine Museum is a new museum housed in the traditional building belonging to
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The Wine and Vine Museum is a new museum housed in the traditional building belonging to Ioannis Boutaris
Yiannis Boutaris ( el, Γιάννης Μπουτάρης; born 13 June 1942) is a Greek businessman and politician, former mayor of Thessaloniki.
Biography
Yiannis Boutaris was born in Thessaloniki in 1942, the son of winemaker Stelios Boutaris ...
in the centre of Naoussa in Central Macedonia
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, Greece
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. The museum’s mission is primarily educational, in other words to make known the history of wine and wine-making in Naoussa and the surrounding district. All exhibits were donated by the wine-makers and inhabitants of the region.
On display in the museum is the Boutari family’s old wine fermentation vat, wine barrels, demijohns, raki vats, baskets (panniers) for the grape harvest, and other agricultural tools for vine growers. Furthermore, the vineyards and wines of Naoussa are presented through the programme entitled ‘The Roads of Wine
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’ and there are samples of wines made by all the wine-makers.
For young visitors there is an educational game on the subject of wine-making
Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its Ethanol fermentation, fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. The ...
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See also
*List of food and beverage museums
This is a list of food and beverage museums. Food museums, beverage museums and wine museums generally provide information about how various foodstuffs are produced or were historically produced. Many of these museums are owned and operated by spe ...
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