The first Greek farmers disembarked on the Calabrian coasts remained so impressed by the fertility of this earth rich in vineyards that they called it "Enotria" and that is "earth where it is cultivated the tall grapevine by earth."The same ancient name of Calabria came then wide to the whole Italy. Great it was also the value that the ancient Greek attributed to the Calabrian vineyards: it results in fact from the tables of Eraclea that a piece of ground of cultivated earth to grapevine was worth around six times a cultivated field to cereals.

The Hellenic farmers brought them new techniques of vinification and new vineyards to install: I am in fact of probable Greek origin some types of grapevine present still both on the Calabrian ground and also in other parts of Italy and that is the gaglioppo, the white Greek and the mantonico, so much to quote only some of it. Some cities assumed a role of first floor in the development of the cultivation of the grapevine: Sibari and Crotone were distinguished in particular way giving origin to the production of the "Krimisa" ancestor of the actual Cirò. Among the other Cremissa it was also the name of the Greek colony, center of an imposing temple devoted to Bacchus, situated more or less where today Cirò Marina is.

The production of wine had assumed such an importance in the zone that seems straight that, to facilitate the load of the ships that they attended in the I bring, they had been built with terracotta pipes of the real ones "enodotti" that departing from the surrounding hills the zone of Sibari they directly reached the points of embarkation facilitating in this way all the operations of transport.

Besides the Cremissa was the "official wine of the Olympiad" and it has probably been the first example of sponsor according to the actual definition.
The same Milone of Crotone, winning of well six Olympiads, seem pits a great estimator of this wine that for tradition you/he/she was offered to the athletes that returned winning by the Olympic competitions. The tradition has been brought in top, also and above all to relaunch the image of the Cirò that had gone darken to the last times, to the Olympiad of City of Mexico in 1968 where all the athletes participants have had the possibility to taste the Cirò as official wine.

The decadence of a people often brings with itself the consequent decadence of the uses and customs of the same people. To this iron rule it has not escaped the Calabrian wine; in fact with the decadence of Great Greece the cultivation of the grapevine suffered a notable crash and lost the whole importance that had reached.
Probably, however, the phase of great crisis, that we could brightly define old to the actual state, the Calabrian wine-growing suffered it in the eight hundred when the arrival of the fillossera caused the decimation of the vineyards and it almost disappearance of the cultivations. In these last years the Cirò, above all in the typology Red, it is also repurchasing it ancient greatness for worth of numerous firms that they have known how to occur again, also not denying the tradition, both as it regards the real vines that for the techniques of vinification.