PREWEDDING EXPERIENCES
PREWEDDING EXPERIENCES
Winery Tours
Discover Crete’s taste and terroir. Follow your guide inland as you encounter rural Crete, the beauty of its landscape and the products of its land. The unique wine identity of the island will be presented to you by an English or French speaking expert. Starting with the wine geography, going through the indigenous grape varieties that have surfaced over the last 15 years, while talking about the new generation of local producers who are creating the new identity of Cretan wines, you will at the same time follow a commented wine tasting, characteristic of this new wave.
Take the time to get the wine side of the island that is still little known to the public, discovering Cretan cheeses and charcuterie, combined with the wines on offer. A moment that is both educational and friendly but above all, revealing part of the soul of this Mediterranean island.
10 km from the north coast of the island, 7 km from the Palace of Knossos, right in the Cretan nature, with a magnificent view over the hills of the Heraklion region and the mountain massif of Psiloritis, follow an amazing wine and terroir experience based on the best Cretan. Tasting of 7 or 5 selected wines, typical of the new generation of wines from this Mediterranean island together with a platter of local cheeses, cold cuts and other Cretan mezes. Escape into the beauty of the place during the silent moment of sunset while encountering the soul of an island that is much more than a seaside destination.
Cretan Food Cooking Classes
Our team consists of the fourth generation wine maker, Nicolas Miliarakis, inviting you to the hospitable patio of his family’s winery, the older organized winery on Crete, together with wine connoisseur Georgios Mastrakoulis. They will introduce you to the wines of Crete and food produced on the fertile Cretan land.
While Nicolas discusses the wines of Crete, Georgios will prepare in front of you 5 dishes to accompany each of the 6 different wines you will taste.
We will start our journey in flavor with a crisp White wine, paired with fresh Myzithra cheese, topped with Petimezi syrup. We will follow this up with a full bodied White wine, paired with Escargot Cretoise, cooked with olive oil, vinegar and rosemary, accompanied by stone baked Cretan sourdough bread
On Crete we enjoy Rose wine with food, so we will pair this with a freshly prepared Dakos, i.e. the Cretan Bruschetta on barley bread. For our first red wine we will offer you freshly sautéed Cretan Smoked Sausage with “Ftazymo” (self-rising) wheat bread. With our barrel aged Red we will offer you a vintage “Graviera”, Crete’s most popular cheese made of sheep’s and goat’s milk. For the end, we will have for you a local cheese pie, topped with original Thyme honey and paired with a semi dry wine.
Every wine and every dish has a story that Nicolas and Georgios will be glad to share with you. All the products we will use are produced on Crete. For cooking and dressing we will only use extra virgin Cretan olive oil.
Duration of the experience is 2,5 to 3 hours approximately.
Heraklion Wine Roads Tour
You are invited to a sensory journey of discovery in the vineyards and wineries of Crete! Your journey starts at 9:00am, when your wine escort will pick you up from your resort in a luxury mini-bus, and head towards the heartland of Crete.
You will drive through countless vineyards and olive groves before you arrive to your first destination. For this we have chosen a medium sized winery, where you will be able to visit the wine production area and the cellar. After the end of your tour, if weather allows it, you will be driven on pick-up trucks in the privately owned vineyard where you will taste 5 different wines, accompanied by Cretan cheese and homemade cheese pies.
After the end of the visit, you will go back on the mini-van and drive back towards Heraklion where you will visit a small rustic winery. After a shot visit in the vineyard and the production area, you will do a tasting of Cretan olive oil and 5 more wines. Tasting delicious wine and breathing in the fresh air of the countryside will help you build an appetite. Worry not, as we have prepared a little feast for you in a local restaurant where you’ll be able to relax and enjoy a meal made of fresh ingredients from the Cretan land, paired with more wine selected by your guide. With your body and soul, full of flavours, scents and emotions, you will be able to wind down and process this experience from the comfort of your bus, as we drive you back to your accommodation.
As the sun is setting, we will bid you farewell, and we hope, that this will not be the. end, but the beginning of a new journey of discovery of the Cretan wine!