The 3rd International Symposium Ampelos 2013 was successfully held in Santorini on May 30-31, 2013.

The advances in the developmental viticulture within the context of climate change, the progress and innovative changes in winemaking, the new strategies for promoting wine products in the new economic conditions formed globally, the institutional changes and the new trends shaping the implementation right viticulture and winemaking practices were the objects of the 3rd International Symposium Ampelos 2013.

Santorini constitutes from every perspective an ideal place for the realization of scientific symposia, particularly of the vine and wine. The natural and rural landscape of unparalleled beauty shaped by the contribution of everlasting vineyards with the traditional form of vines, the result of centuries of good viticulture practices, the high winemaking knowledge and technique with 3500 years of history which utilizes marvelously the local grapevine varieties cultivated in the rocky volcanic soils, the tradition and culture as well Caldera make Santorini unique.

AMPELOS 2013 Trends in world vitiviniculture development 30 - 31 May 2013, Santorini island, Greece