[1][5][6] The company's founder, Spyros Metaxa, was born in 1848 into a family of Greek silk merchants.

Exposed during his travels to spirits and wines from around the world, he created Metaxa in 1888, when he owned a tavern.

[7] In 1968, the distillery and the Metaxa cellars were relocated to new facilities in Athens's northern suburb of Kifissia.

[4] On Samos, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea, grapes, primarily Muscat, a variety originally from Greece, are cultivated in terraces and hand-picked.

Mediterranean botanicals are added as part of the finishing process, including May rose, also a component of Chanel No.