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Winter and Wine on Santorini
I reached Santorini on a cold, sun-drenched morning in early January and, without quite realizing how, ended up
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Life
Celebrating St Tryphon in Goumenissa: A Warming Feast in the Depths of Winter
Goumenissa, close to Greece’s northern border, is a wine town. On the feast day of St. Tryphon – the protector of the vine – the locals go all out for what is one of winter’s biggest celebrations.
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Life
The Wines of the Midnight Harvest
At Domaine Vassiliou, the wine harvest is carried out at night in order to keep the vineyard’s grapes fresh and crispy, essential for an excellent wine.
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Athens
A Shrimp Institution
It’s just a neighborhood, no frills taverna, and in an out of the way residential neighborhood at that, tucked into a corner on a back street in Piraeus that ends at the Greek Naval Academy. You will catch a glimpse of the open sea and some young cadets in uniform leaving and entering the gates, but Margaro hardly matches the picture postcard notion of a Greek seaside taverna. You wouldn’t…
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