Douniya – Stelios Trilirakis and the Cretan cuisine
How far would you drive for a meal? We drove through the switchbacks of Crete’s White mountains to Douniya, where Stelios Trilirakis is taking an elemental approach to Cretan cuisine.
Category: Food & Wine
Tasting the wines of Les Paissels in Saint-Chinian. Part 2
Let me start by reminding everyone that by the time we sat down with Vivien Roussignol to taste the seductive Carignan laced wines of Les Paissels, we were way past our lunch time. And we hadn’t eaten all day! We had spent most of the morning and a fair chunk of the afternoon in the [...]
Ferré i Catasus – A gem in the Penedès Wine Country
Ferré i Catasus is a family run winery in the Alt Penedès. This winery has a history rooted in the region and their portfolio reflects the art of the land.
Dinner under the big sky
Desert sunsets in the West are beautiful. There is the expanse of sky that serves as a pallete for sunlight. This evening was special. We were on the 15th hole of the Lakeridge Golf Course in Reno, Nevada. John Franklin and his imaginative crew holds this dinner on the golf course at the 15th hole [...]
Of Terroirs and Wine.
Sometimes plans change and that can be a good thing. We missed a ferry from Agiokampos, Evia to Glyfa. We had to cancel a planned stop at a distillery – I am seeking good tsipouro. Anyone? We were also planning a visit to the village of Sotirio. We had plans to meet George Kitos. We […]
Beauty in unexpected places.
They say you find beauty and love in unexpected places. Here’s an unexpected place. A village called Adam. Here you will find Wines of Adam. And Refosco. How do you get here? For the GPS challenged, if you were approaching from Sithonia, you drive towards Polygiros, then go past Prodromos and then climb into the […]
Wines from south of the mind’s border
The dirt roads will get ya. It had rained the week before and we could still see the deep gashes where the rivulets had cut into the ochre red soil. And there are pot holes, many of them with water from the two days of rain last week. Then the steep climbs that seldom show [...]
The Wines of Matanegra
That afternoon we got together for lunch at César and José-Luis’s man cave not too far from the winery of Pagos de Matanegra itself. It was snowing intermittently outside and we were also paid a visit by the resident feline! Our hosts were very not only gracious but also excellent cooks it turns out. We […]