The Samos Cooperative has the honor of presiding over Greece's best known and most highly regarded appellation. One of Greece's original cooperatives, the Samos takes very seriously its role as guardian of the island's famous Muscat tradition. The cooperative, in fact, has played an important role in reviving an industry that was a shadow of its formal self at the time of the the cooperative's inception in 1934 . Today, the reputation of its wines firmly restored to the glory
they knew during the era of Phylloxera in France in the nineteenth century, the cooperative boasts 25 sub-cooperatives comprising 4,000 members, an annual production of around seven million litres or 9000 tonnes and 130 employees.
