The protagonists, the members of the Papanikolaou family, the owners of a successful winery and vineyards in Arcadia on the Peloponnese, founded as early at 1885. The wines the produced have won prizes at all major world fairs, Paris, Chicago, Liege, San Francisco, plus they had invented a patent of winemaking without adding sulfur, the natural wine in our days. But they wanted more. They wanted to eliminate the “champanoise” label and remake Arcadia into the Champagne of the East. They provoked the opposition of the political and banking establishment in the early beginning of 20th century, which wanted to control every new promising company. 15 years later the political change in Greece-the dethronement of the King and the rise to power of the liberals- offered to Papanikolaou family an opportunity to finance their plans by themselves. But they involved in a scandal and that was the cause of their bankruptcy.