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08 Mar Greek Aged Tsipouro & Other Spirits
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Greek aged spirits, led by tsipouro, have made great strides in terms of quality, justifying in consumers’ heads that they can offer the same moments of pleasure as international well-established drinks.Aged samples excel in international competit..
20 Dec Pairing classic Christmas dishes with the right wines. A brief guide to the sea of flavors!
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Pairing classic Christmas dishes with the right wines. A brief guide to the sea of flavors!Christmas! The season of joy, laughter and good friends. But it is also a time when food and wine pairings take place.As families and friends gather around the..
17 Nov Does meat pair with white wine? | Stavros Moustakas Oktapodas DipWSET
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We were taught to only pair meat with red wine. Let's forgive them!Some will talk about stereotypes, others about "common sense", others simply don't drink red wine because it annoys them, while there are also those who don't mind pouring white wine ..
21 Oct 50 Great Greek Wines 2023
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The awards “50 Great Greek Wines” are the creation of Yiannis Karakasis, Greece ‘s second Master of Wine. As he states, they started as an idea to give Greek wine producers a recognizable identity to wine lovers all over the world. Although 2023 is j..
15 Sep The right glassware and their importance in wine: Necessity or show-off? | Stavros Moustakas Oktapodas DipWSET
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The right glassware and their importance in wine: Necessity or show-off?In a world where size and shape matters, glassware should be in the top of this list.It is not a luxury, it is not a show-off, it is simply wine culture to seek the maximum possi..
09 Jun Barrel and oak importance in wine: Necessity or exaggeration?
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Barrel and oak importance in wine: Necessity or exaggeration?Looking back on the writer's early days as a budding wine lover, I remember the atmosphere in the discussions and writing at the time, promoting the use of casks in wine as a necessity to u..
07 Apr What wines will you try during Easter? | Stavros Moustakas Oktapodas DipWSET
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What wines will you try during Easter? Should you go classic or unconventional? Easter Sunday, a day of celebration and the festive end of fasting.Traditionally, in one way or another, (almost) everyone will eat mageiritsa, lamb, on the spit, in ..
10 Feb How Do I Describe a Wine?
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How Do I Describe a Wine?Wine magazines, blogs, publications, and other sources many times use terms and sayings … incomprehensible to the uninformed. What do all these exotic terms really mean? If I was crazy about a wine, how would I describe it to..
07 Dec Decanting: Essential or just a show-off? | Stavros Moustakas Oktapodas DipWSET
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Decanting: Essential or just a show-off?Most of us who read these lines have witnessed, in some fine restaurant, the sommelier decanting a wine with surgical precision and religious reverence wine into a stylish crystal decanter. Do we really need th..
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