We're here with Yiannis Karakasis greek wine master and we're talking about all things greek
wine in addition to travel guides and hotel and restaurant reviews we're also trying to help our
readers at santorinidave.com and our audience to deepen their journey here and their travels and
we're talking about all things greek wine Yiannis i'm curious you travel the world do you present
greek wine to the world to the wine community i'm curious how does uh how does it sort of stack up
when you present greek wine to the world what are some of the ways in which you are noticing the
sort of growth of the greek wine industry and uh how greek wine is changing on the world stage okay
you know because i want to just say i think it's my understanding is that it's grossly underrated
right correct you know the big challenge is to persuade someone to taste good wine
when they test it once wow what is this is amazing what is the price and we say this costs like 15 or
20 euros but it tastes like 50 euros so the the first thing is to you know overcome the
the difficulty persuade someone to taste the wine then they're amazed and with my experience
having tasting a lot of wine side by side greek wines next to no french italian spanish white
wines in a blind tasting i can see how well they are how how great they are and you know that was
the the concept that was the reason why i did when i started a revolutionary wine competition called
50 grand quick wine so we taste only greek wines and we award 50 of those with top tasters of
um you know international judges masters of wine master sommelier we did that last year and we're
gonna repeat it uh this year and after that you know we promote these wines these wines are our
children and we try to know to do things in wine lists all over the world in greece and and abroad
great exciting yeah i think it's exciting we live in exciting times for a wine lover because
you want to think a little bit outside the box
we don't have only french wine i love french fries we don't have only spanish wine i love it as well
and spanish and italian wines let's give a chance also
to some of the most authentic and original wines coming from greece yeah it sort of mirrors the
growth of the greek tourism industry absolutely we have we used to have in 2019 32 million tourists
just this number this number
this number is is is huge and the potential for the greek wine industry is very big you
just need to persuade it to persuade the tourists present the nice stuff in taverna that we were
talking before because we want someone that visits greece to get the best experience great that's a
nice segue to recognizing that we are here in mr vertigo a very beautiful wine shop here in athens
and this is an opportunity to sort of invite our readers who may be ending their tour or their trip
in greece in athens who want to bring greek wine home with them but don't want to carry it around
in their suitcase throughout their greek trip tell me a little bit about this wine shop and
maybe make some recommendations uh for people who might have an interest in coming here at the very
end of their trip to take some greek wine home with them yes there are quite a few wine shops in
athens and a lot of wine bars that someone can visit like you know like we are here in mr vertigo
and they have a great selection if i was visiting offense i would be looking to
take home an acepticon exinoma bro or an ayurvedic or ebola or vitiano
it's a new world and look out for greek wine great so again we're here in the kolonaki neighborhood
this right here is an example of a greek wine basket that Yiannis was talking about earlier
many different varieties of greek wines and it's a great opportunity if you're ending your trip
here in greece to stop by mr vertigo wine shop in kolonaki to grab a couple bottles of wine to
take home with you yep absolutely great Yiannis it's been great talking with you thank you so
much again at santorini dave.com in addition to the hotel reviews and restaurant reviews
and travel guides we are also trying to help our readers and our audience to broaden their journey
here and enjoying and understanding greek wine is just one piece of that
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