Winery · Abu al-Matamir

Gianaclis Vineyards

Modern revival of Nestor Gianaclis' 1882 vision: Egypt's first winery revived in Nile Delta south of Alexandria, now producing Cabernet Sauvignon and blends with imported grapes from France and Lebanon.

What to do there

TourGianaclis: Egypt's Delta Winery and Its Alexandria TracesGianaclis is the wine house of Heineken's Egyptian company, and the house dates its vineyards from 1882. Its cellar, where the owner says about 100 people work, is in Gianaclis village near Abu al-Matamir, in Beheira in the western Nile Delta, 45 km from central Alexandria. There are no walk-in visits: the visits on record were booked coach days from Cairo, and today's dates and prices come only on request, from the owner's customer line 19347. On your own in Alexandria it costs nothing or the price of a bottle: read the house's old two-language sign, find its Bobal red, a grape from Spain, on a shop shelf, and stand in the quarter named Gianaclis.