OUR STORY

Ioannis Mitsis, a lover of good food (“souvla” spit roast, “ofto” and “kleftiko” stuffed meat in wooden oven, etc) and good wine (muscat, “ampelisimo”,
“mavro” and “sterko” varieties), always bought good quality wine from friends or close relatives – producers living in the nearby Traditional Villages Gerakies, Polystypo and Kannavia (Pitsilia, Marathasa, etc).

One year around 1960, Telemachus, a friend of Grandpa Giannis, was hosted in his rich village named Zodia. Telemachus’ job was to sale his wine in the village, door to door, in small barrels. But this year he brought big quantity, it was not sold, and he was very upset because he was poor.
Christmas was approaching and Telemachus had to leave for his own village. Grandpa Giannis then decided the unexpected. He bought all Telemachus’ wine to help him. When asked what he would do with it, he had already decided.
After consulting old winemakers, and after reading several books, Grandpa Giannis quickly realized that the uniqueness of these indigenous wine varieties resulted in producing excellent vinegar of incomparable taste and aroma. And this is what he did, establishing since 1961 standard recipes for the production of authentic wine vinegar, which were handed over to his family and are kept a seven – sealed secret since then.

Today,more than sixty years later, the third generation of the family maintains the knowledge and recipes received unchanged, as a genuine legacy from Grandpa Giannis, and continues with the same dedication having embraced the thirty year’s experience of the largest vinegar producing factory of Northern Greece, which was redeemed in 2017.
Having developed a state-of-the-art unit within the boundaries of Thessaloniki and Halkidiki Prefectures, in one of the most important vinery – growing regions of Greece, MITSIS & MITSIS GROUP S. A. operates in the food sector with the most modern techniques, providing excellent products of incomparable quality and unique nutritional value. Since 2017, MITSIS & MITSIS GROUP S. A. has grown dynamically in the Food Sector and specialises – among others – in the production and bottling of balsamic and table vinegar in various flavours and packages, mustard, ketchup, lemon juice, as well as in the standardization of olives, olive oil and honey.