Konstantinos Lazarakis MW

Where It Started Born in Piraeus, Greece, Konstantinos Lazarakis MW comes out of a route shaped by ports, formal study, and music rather than a single straight apprenticeship. The National & Technical University of Athens gave that route an academic frame, and the Master of Wine credential, earned in 2002, sits at the center of the formation, not as an endpoint. That mix matters in trade terms: technical discipline, trained listening, and wine literacy all appear in the same profile. Wine, for him, is read through the senses. “In my early 20s, I was captivated by the fact that someone could use the nose and the palate to discover places, winemakers, varieties, and philosophies about wine.” That is the operating principle in the background here: aroma and palate as tools for locating origin, maker, grape, and point of view. The work starts in sensory analysis and moves outward into geography and thought.

Who Shaped Them No named mentor defines the line. The shaping forces are Greece, study, music, and the Master of Wine exam, which Lazarakis describes as a test that took seven years to pass. It is a route built from persistence and attention rather than from a conventional training hierarchy. The motive force, in his own words, was not status but attachment: “Love is what put me into wine in the first place.” From there, the field narrows toward Greek wine, which becomes the specialty tying together birthplace, education, and professional practice. At the table, the culture is direct. “We would always consume food with wine. If we are consuming food without wine then it’s just breakfast.” The point is not ceremony; it is integration. Wine belongs with eating as part of daily life, not as a separate category reserved for formality.

The Work Today

General Manager at AIOLOS S.A. in Greece places Konstantinos Lazarakis MW in the trade as a manager with wine expertise rather than as a figure defined only by credentials. The role sits alongside Greek wine as the practical expression of the same formation: knowledge carried into commercial work. The through-line is connective. Piraeus, Athens, technical education, music, the MW exam, and Greek wine all feed the same discipline of reading wine as place, maker, variety, philosophy, table, and memory. That is the shape of the work here: not flourish, but interpretation.

Signature

Konstantinos's signature wines include The Wines of Greece and Directory of Greek Wine Producers.

In Their Words “We would always consume food with wine. If we are consuming food without wine then it’s just breakfast.” “Love is what put me into wine in the first place.”