I should have posted this a very long time ago and am going to post it now as it is very apropos to the GREEK Big Theme Wine-Tasting that we will be hosting very soon at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008, Tel:202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com, www.clevelandparkwine.com ).
The GREEK " Big Theme " Wine-Tasting is on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 ( 5:30-8:30PM ) and everyone is invited so come join us. We will have three other people pouring besides Nikolas and Sotiris Bafitis ( Nikolas is the president of Nikolas Imports that specializes in Greek wines. The two will be our two featured guests for this Greek Moment Of Wine here in our nation's capitol. It will be fun and educational to host this Greek evening of around thirty or so wines from Greece which will include three Retsina resin wines.
No need to call, just come and enjoy the experience as it and the wines wash over you and make you believers of the excellent, varied and really world-class high-quality of Greek wines today.
Sotiris brought me the ATLANTIS wines a very long time ago. I credit Sotiris with bringing Greek wines to the fore-front/attention of the Washington D.C. metropolitan dining/wine scene when he made the first wine list for the still-trendy Washington D.C. restaurant Zatinya and included many Greek wines. The restaurant became an immediate success and the rest is history as many of us already know.
There have been many questions raised over the years of which distributor has the right to sell which Greek wines in Washington D.C. ( and when I talk to each and everyone of them I hear another story ). Let it suffice to say that for all of this the selection of Greek wines here in Washington D.C. and that I am thrilled to sell them and have been for thirty years or so now. I have written much on this and am thrilled to continue doing so.
In preparation for this GREEK Big-Theme Wine-Tasting I have taken many samples of Greek wines down to the beach provided to me by both Nikolas Imports and Dionysos Imports. I have not tried them all yet but am still off for this week here at home in northern Virginia and will continue to sample them before our Big-Event in just another week from now. It's Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 12:30 PM as I type this blog and get ready to post it.
I tasted all these wines pictured above with Sotiris a year ago back in 2009. I have since bought and sold them all to grand success. My daughter was even able to go over and visit Mathew the owner of ATLANTIS and have a tour of the winery. Sotiris arranged this for me and I thank you both Sotiris and Mathew for what you did for my daughter's visit there to your winery and to the beautiful island of Santorini where she had a wonderful week in their off-season in the first week of December 2009. I wish that I had been able to be there with her. Oh well ... perhaps the next time.
This was downloaded here on my art blog because I wanted to make t more about the art of Sotiris and Sotiris the Man that by the way got married and has a beautiful young child born recently. Congratulations on both Sotiris!
Being an artist I am always looking at things through my artist's eyes and wanting to show visually as much as through words the moment that I have shared with my visitors to Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits. This one was an old-friends, casual and totally relaxed visit with just me and Sotiris. I have been buying Greek wines now from Sotiris for seven or more years and so there is little pretense or pomp and circumstance. We taste, talk, joke, tell stories, ask leading questions of one another and I always try and enjoy the moment I share together with him to the very fullest.
I really enjoyed taking these more artsy photos that speak to the truth and relaxed nature of our time here spent together now back by the office.
I have more to write and add later today here but for the moment will post this " as-is " and finish really soon. Stay-tuned ...
Enjoy these fun photos, cheers, ... I loved some of these wines including the ATLANTIS dry rose. TONY
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