The Cyprus Wine Museum in Erimi!

The Cyprus Wine Museum in Erimi invites all wine lovers to take a historic journey through the 5500 years Cyprus has been producing wine!The fascinating museum opened its doors in November 2004, after the 150-year-old building underwent extensive restoration, expansion and renovation. In the past the building was an inn. Its most frequent guests were wine merchants travelling to and from Limassol, from where they used to sell their wine at the city’s market.

Following the museum’s inauguration, it became known that Erimi is the place where the cultivation of grapes and wine production started 5500 years ago! Besides being in the heart of wine production, the museum is also close to Kolossi Castle, the castle where the Hospitaller Knights first started producing Coumandaria in medieval times. Coumandaria is the island’s most popular wine today. The museum is also close by to Sotira Village and its prehistoric settlement where excavations have revealed the most ancient remains of grape seeds.

At the museum visitors are taken through the history of wine in Cyprus by using audiovisual and photographic material. Visitors also marvel at ancient vases, jars, drinking vessels as well as wine equipment, archaic documents and instruments all used in the production of wine making in ancient times.