ΚΡΕΤΑ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΣ Α.Ε.- MEDITERRA WINERY

Cantina e Vini

The winery of Mediterra lies in a building ground of 15.000m2 in the village Kounavi of the Nikos Kazantzakis municipality in the prefecture of Heraklion in Crete. The winery’s facilities consist of the area where the wine grapes are collected and processed for vinification, the underground storage and wine ageing area, the two wine cellars with the oak barrels and barriques, the bottling facility and the area for the preservation of the final products. The storage capacity reaches 19.000hl in stainless steel and oak tanks, while the two wine cellars dispose of over 500 oak barrels (300lt) and barriques (225lt). The vinification area includes transportation lines and mechanical crushers for the collection of the wine grapes, a heat exchanger for the must, three pneumatic presses, stainless steel and oak tanks and an automatic system controlling the temperature and the development of the alcoholic fermentation. In the wine storage tanks which lie in the underground, air conditioned area, there is a central system filling the empty space with inert gas. The bottling line that was recently modernized is completely automated and its production ability exceeds the 4.500 bottles per hour. In detail, the bottling line consists of the empty bottles depalletizer, the complex system that includes the rinsing, bottling and corking (or Stelvin capping) machines, the optical unit controlling the filling and the closure of the bottles, the unit for the positioning of capsules, the labeling machine (for self-adhesive and glue labels) as well as the complex system for the formation, filling and sealing of the cartons.