Archaeological research has identified amphorae made in Crete at many sites in the eastern Mediterranean, such as Paphos, Miletus, Samos, Tinos, Eretria, Athens and Piraeus, Corinth and Isthmia, Argos, Thebes, and Thassos.
Cretan wine was very popular with the Romans and Cretan amphorae found at various places throughout Europe, such as Marseilles, Strasbourg, Vindonissa-Switzerland, Lyon, in Vienna-Austria, Narbonne, Anse de Saint-Gervais, Fréjus. Some were even found in the Black Sea region, in Tropaeum Traiani at the mouth of the Danube.
Cretan amphorae were also found along the Adriatic and on the Italian Peninsula. Many of them were found near Rome, since the sweet Cretan wine was very popular with Roman nobles. Locations include Durres-Albania, Rome, Ostia, Pozzuoli, Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Stabia, Sybaris, Porto Recanati, Cremona, Luni, and Milan.
Shipwrecks loaded with Cretan amphorae were also found in this area; in the bay of Saint Raphael, at the shipwreck near Pyrgi between Corsica and Italy, as well as at the wreck of Alberti in the Aeolian Islands in Sicily.
Naval missions with wine amphorae were sent to North Africa, where Cretan amphorae were found in Alexandria, El-Alamein, Taposiris Magna, Theiadelphia, Tebtunis, and Mons Claudianus. They were also sent to Carthage, Sabratah and Berenice of Cyrenaica.