Local Produce
Sometimes it’s difficult for
visitors to Greece to choose what to buy when they can’t taste something
first. It might also be difficult to
find small enough quantities of some products.
Everybody’s tastes are
different but we have our own favourites and we are happy to offer our guests a
chance to first taste and then to buy from us whatever quantity they want at
the prices that we pay.
Dry White Wines
We very much enjoy white wine
from two local wineries and we buy them in boxes where they keep fresh. Both are made from Greek grape varieties,
both are very clean with hardly any chemicals, and both cost just 2.50 Euros a litre. They have
very different flavours.
The Anastasia Fragou winery in Rafina produces
white wine from Savatiano grapes. The white wine from the Marathonia
Yi winery in Marathon is made from a mix of Malagouzia
and Asyrtiko grapes.
We also enjoy and buy boxes of
a white wine with yet another very different flavour. It’s produced in central Greece from Muscat
grapes. It’s unusual to find dry Muscat
wines because those grapes are usually used to produce sweet dessert
wines. We know less about its production
but it also seems to be very clean and it also costs just 2.50 Euros a litre.
That’s three different
flavours to choose from - or to reject!
Dry Red Wine
The Denezis
winery is in Nemea, a region near Corinth that produces some of the best red
wine in Greece. We buy very nice red
wine made from a richly flavoured Greek grape variety
Agioryitiko (Saint George). Again it costs just 2.50
Euros a litre.
Olive oil
It’s not easy to find small
bottles of olive oil that would be enough for a holiday and flavours can vary a
lot. We can recommend an extra virgin
oil that’s produced using the koroneiki variety of
olives from the southern Peloponnese.
Our guests are welcome to buy from us as much as they like at 12.50
Euros a litre.
Honey
We buy honey that’s made in
the pine forests on the mountains near Delphi.
It’s a lovely colour and consistency, it’s not too sweet, and it costs
just 7 Euros a kilo.
Please just ask us if you would like to taste any of
these products.
If they’re not to your taste then there’s nothing
lost!