Vlassides Winery - About Us - 2018

A native of Limassol, Sophocles Vlassides was born in 1971. He graduated with first class honors in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1995. Upon his return to Cyprus he worked for one of the largest wineries of Cyprus, for a year. Determined to establish his own winery, he attended the renowned University of California, Davis as a Fulbright Scholar, where he published several papers on the use of artificial intelligence in winemaking and received a Masters in Oenology in 1998. In the summer of 1998, as soon as he returned to his homeland of Cyprus, he established Vlassides Winery in the village of Koilani, located in the southern region of the Troodos mountains and a region well known for its vineyards. In 1999, his dream became a reality with the introduction of his first wine "Vlassides Shiraz 98'" to the market.