Santorini's modern wineries are helping the island to fight back against mass tourism, as wine cultivation offers an alternative to plowhing up fields to build hotels.

Santorini's modern wineries are helping the island to fight back against mass tourism, as wine cultivation offers an alternative to plowhing up fields to build hotels.

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Can wine help save Greece's Santorini from too much tourism?

Santorini's sweeping caldera, sunset cruises, picturesque blue-domed churches and whitewashed vacation cottages carved into a 300-meter cliff have made it an unstoppable success story among the islands of Greece.