Alexandra Manousakis

The Climb

Training at NYU gave Alexandra Manousakis a base that could carry across institutions, markets, and the winery floor. That breadth shows up in the sequence that followed: a staff role at Onassis Foundation in Manhattan, New York, then work in real estate marketing as a professional at Unnamed employer in Manhattan, New York. Taken together, those posts map a career with range, but also a practical feel for how ideas, presentation, and commerce are handled in different settings. That range now sits inside Manousakis Winery, where Alexandra Manousakis is co-runner of the family enterprise in Crete, Greece. The move from New York institutions and marketing into winery leadership keeps the through-line clear: different disciplines, brought into one operation.

Today

Winemaking is the center of Alexandra Manousakis’s work at Manousakis Winery, where the role places her in the estate’s creative and technical decisions. Her practice as an artist and winemaker stays tied to her Greek-American heritage, while also remaining connected to painting and design. The connection is not decorative; it is structural, with each side of the work carrying the same attention to form, memory, and expression.

Signature

Nostos Alexandra's and Winks are the signature wines associated with Alexandra Manousakis. Within the line-up, those names sit close to her wider practice, where wine is shaped alongside art rather than separated from it.

In Their Words “Spontaneity is key—scribbles in the margins, repeated patterns, and instinctive mark-making recall the act of filling schoolbooks as a child.” Spontaneity here is presented as method, not mood: repeated marks, margin notes, and instinctive gesture used as a working language. The point is craft through repetition and impulse, with drawing treated as an active surface practice rather than something fixed or overworked. “My work explores identity, movement, and history—both personal and collective—through the lens of my Greek-American heritage.”

Recognition

The public register for Alexandra Manousakis runs through both wine and art, and the language she uses keeps the two in the same frame. “My work explores identity, movement, and history—both personal and collective—through the lens of my Greek-American heritage.” That framing is useful because it identifies the same material across disciplines: heritage translated into making, whether in the winery or in painting and design.