Christos Kanellakopoulos passed away at the age of 78. Son of the former mayor TowerLambi Kanellakopoulos, in recent years has been facing serious health problems. On Saturday morning (5/4/25), he was found unconscious at his home in the “Mercury Estate”.
The news of the loss of Christos Kanellakopoulos scattered sadness in the local community of Pyrgos, according to iliaenimerosi.gr and in the field of wine production across the country. This is a loss of incomplete as H. Kanellakopoulos linked his name to the Renaissance of the Family Winery – Estate…
It is one of the most historic Greek wineries (the second oldest after Achaia Klaus), which is a destination for unique natural beauty.
Christos Kanellakopoulos and his brother Basil, the fourth generation of Mercury, was the leaders of the systematic effort to revitalize the traditional crops of Mercouri Estate (which began in the mid -1980s), with the aim of producing high quality standard wines.
They modernized the old facilities with state -of -the -art winemaking machinery and expanded the vineyards with new plantings, which resulted in Mercury Estate wines being in the first place in recent years, having conquered the difficult characterization of the “classics”.
Today, the 5th generation members are active in the business, the brothers Dimitris and Lambis Kanellakopoulos.