Wine Museum
Wine Museum, Cyprus Wine Museum
Cyprus, Limassol
The Wine Museum in the village of Erimi, which was opened in 2004, is not the only wine museum in Cyprus, but is of great interest to researchers. A museum that would tell about all thirty spirit wineries in Cyprus, about the history of the origin and development of winemaking on the island, did not exist until November 2004.
In 2000, the Cypriot composer Anastasia Guy decided to fulfill her long-held dream - to create a Cyprus Museum of wine, which has been produced on the island for five millennia. It was decided to establish the museum in the house that Anastasia's family has owned for more than 100 years.
One of the three floors of the museum is given over to the exhibition of photographs and drawings illustrating the history of Cypriot winemaking. Ancient jugs and vases (provided by the Cyprus Museum), medieval wine vessels (a gift from the Pieridis Museum), ancient documents and tools from the private collection of Anastasia Gai clearly demonstrate how wine was produced and stored in the past.
In one of the halls you can see ancient tools for cultivating the vine and a wine press, with the help of which the inhabitants of the village of Omodos crushed bunches of ripe grapes. The lower floor of the house is given over to the collection, which contains the best wines of the island. Hall "Illarion" is intended for tasting. The central place in the collection belongs to the queen of Cypriot wines "Commandaria".
In addition to the exposition, museum visitors are shown a film about all aspects of wine production, from planting a vine in the ground to bottling wine. It is worth noting that the film is intended for people of all nationalities - without a single word, with the help of video and musical accompaniment, which was written by the founder of the museum Anastasia Gay, the audience is presented with the history and modernity of Cypriot wine.