Vaimakis Family

The Vaimakis family has been engaged in the production and merchandising of food products since the mid-19th century. The family founded a small industrial plant for the production of wine, raki and vinegar in Paramythia – Thesprotia, (a great producing and commercial centre of Epirus at the time), while continuing their trade of olive oil and operating a bakery and a restaurant, all at the same time. In the mid 1970s, Vassilis Vaimakis, young chemist back then, decided to take on the old family tradition and work as a winemaker. At the end of the 1990s, he started focusing on a ‘forgotten’ or just neglected wine product - vinegar. In one of the most famous wine producing regions in Greece, Zitsa, he and his wife, Ekaterini, set up a small industrial plant, and by using the locally produced grape varieties, they launched the first samples of their product which was put on the market in 2005. It didn't take long before their products drew much attention and received praise from both connoisseurs and consumers.