Domaine Tatsis “Xinomavro” Macedonia, 2011
Built at the foot of Paikos, Goumenissa is a community district of the Municipality of Paionia in the prefecture of Kilkis with a population of 4500 inhabitants, just 65 km from Thessaloniki. The town was created during the first years of the Turkish rule with the amalgamation of agricultural settlements around the powerful monastery of Panagia. The area developed into an important wine and sericulture center. From 1922 to 1925, a significant number of refugees from Eastern Romilia (Northern Thrace) and Pontus settled in Goumenissa, who enriched the local tradition with new elements. Far away in time and place, the Tatsis family’s involvement with vines and wine began, it originates from Ano Vodeno in Eastern Romilia, an area of viticulture for centuries. In 1924, the refugee grandparents chose Goumenissa, also a vineyard, as a place of settlement. The Tatsis family, from 1924 onwards, acquired vines on the Libaskerit and Gerakona hills, a total area of 150 acres, places ideal for viticulture in limestone soils that are not irrigated and are worked by the family, first the grandfather, then the son Christos together with the sons of Pericles and Stergios.
