In 1892, Panagiotis Pitsiladis created the Pitsiladis Distillery in Plomari, Lesvos. The distillery was later runned by his children and now the tourch has been passed down to his great, grandkid, Giannis Kleidaras.
Up until the mid-80s the distillery was producing a lot of different alcoholic beverages. However, nowadays the attetion has been gived to oyzo which is still created with the trditional, secret method.