[Greek Aidio]
A young oenologist takes charge of Domaine Porto Carras and finds out an old, forgotten variety: Malagousia. He revives it, cultivates it on a small scale and the first wine he produces immediately stands out. It was the first of many successes of the well-known winemaker Vangelis Gerovasiliou, who begun from Epanomi, Thessaloniki and has conquered the world of wine.
Narrator: Vangelis Gerovasiliou
Researcher: Elpida Christaki
Podcast Creation: Fenia Chala
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photos by Apostolos Karoulas
Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.