Restaurant Aleria

Aleria is quickly becoming a family favourite. This restaurant cooks great food  in a great atmosphere.
On saturday we feasted on, potatoe soup ganished with chorizo, a lentil salad , with the typical greek smoked pork, lonza, very tasty.
Then I had salmon tartare , my husband went for cooked salmon, both perfect.
To accompany this we drunk my latest discovery, Pappagianakos Savatiano, with a touch of oak.
The savatianno variety has always been considered a little second rate as they make retsina from this variety.
However, this wine is sublime and just demonstrates what a top winemaker Pappagianakos has become.
Some of you are thinking that I have abandoned greek food, not at all, just sometimes it is nice to have a change and not to be totally ethnocentric

Wines of the Peloponnese

On Sunday we spent a pleasant afternoon at the annual tasting of wines from the Peloponnese. This event is free to the public so that they have a chance to taste different wines and talk with the producers.
One of my favourites was the "Argilos" made by the Harlaftis Winery. this shows all the best characteristics of the Aghiorghitiko grape.
I revisited the unusual variety "Kythonitsa" which grows in Laconia.