
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
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.
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…
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…
Spyros Patsialos, former manager of Greece’s Faltso Bar, created this highly complex tiki drink using the native Greek spirit, mastiha, as the base.
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…
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.
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…
(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…