Meet Greece’s Best White Wines
Welcome to "Crib Sheet," your monthly shortcut to what's hot in wine right now, in four bottles. This month: Greece's breakout hitmaker, assyrtiko.
- story: Jon Bonné
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Wine Stories That Will Shape 2016
From California doubling down on Tuesday night wines to Oregon's embrace of a new muse to the Savoie finally climbing out of the Jura's hip-cocked shadow, Jon Bonné lays out…
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Yoonhwa Jang
The Unlikely Rebirth of an Ancient Greek Spirit
Though thousands of years old, mastiha spirits are experiencing a renaissance in Greece's modern cocktail scene. Hope Ewing on the uses and cultural significance of this tree sap liqueur from…
- story: Hope Ewing
- photo: Spyros Papaspyropoulos
Mantequilla
Spyros Patsialos, former manager of Greece’s Faltso Bar, created this highly complex tiki drink using the native Greek spirit, mastiha, as the base.
- story: joanna_h
- photo: Vangelis Patsialos
Santorini Rediscovers Its Forgotten Wines
The dominant style of Santorini white wines—brisk, acid-driven and clean—are actually a very modern creation. Zachary Sussman explores a crop of producers reinterpreting a pre-industrial, barrel-fermented style known as “Nykteri"—a…
- story: Zachary Sussman
- photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis
Tico Kafés
Created for the 2014 World Cup match between Greece and Costa Rica, the Tico Kafés mixes the anise flavor of ouzo with coffee, similar to Italy's caffè coretto alla sambuca.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: John Perry Yates
All That Sparkles: Five Spritzer Cocktails
They may be a bit frilly and perhaps carry a whiff of your great-aunt's 4 p.m. gossip hour, but the spritz is not to be belittled. Here are five to…
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Nicole Franzen
Ouzo
(n.) Ouzo is the Greek entry in a loose family of anise-flavored spirits from the Mediterranean, including raki (Turkey), arak (Lebanon) and sambuca (Italy). The best examples of the category…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
