The importance of Alagni as a wine region in the past is proved by the multiple rock-hewn winepresses that can be found around the area. At “Prasas” location we find yet another medieval winepress on a small hill with views to the surrounding farming area as well as the hill and the castle of “Tholoi”. The winepress was constructed on a big rock and even-though it is nowadays in ruins and almost completely covered by weeds, you can still see the stone vat which is a little over a meter in length. The treading floor seems to have been square, chiseled on rock a little higher that the vat. Around the floor there are still some rocks that used to be parts of its original walls. It is certain that the press was in use during the middle ages. The winepresses in Medieval Crete were scattered around vineyards or settlements and were rock-hewn or stone-built, open-air or indoors, according to the director of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, historian Charalampos Gasparis, The presses belonged to the landholder who granted them to local growers along with vineyards for cultivation and maintenance under the agreement to be returned after the end of the contract in a good condition. The landholders preferred to have a press in close proximity to the vineyards to avoid theft of the grapes. The growers and landholders would meet annually during the first half of September at the press, for the inspection and split of the year’s production right after the harvest.