Crete Wine Tour: 3-hour Crete Wine Tasting from Rethymno Food and Wine experiences

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Crete Wine Tour: 3-hour Crete Wine Tasting from Rethymno

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About this experience

✔ Health & safety measures apply
✔ Small-group tour
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 3 hours
STARTING TIME: 6.00 pm
MEETING POINT: 3rd km, National Road Rethymno-Chania-Rethymno
LANGUAGES: English
OPEN SEASONS: May to October
WHO CAN COME: Crete wine tour is suitable for adults only. Children won't be served wine

Overview

Join a Crete wine tour and explore the best tastes and aromas Crete has to offer. Taste 11 different premium quality wines and learn all about winemaking in Crete and how culture and tradition have contributed to the development of healthy viniculture in the whole of the island. End your tour with a delicious full-course meal.

◾ Enjoy a tasting of 11 different wines (75ml per glass)
◾ Experience pairing of traditional food with wine
◾ At the end of your Crete wine tasting experience play a blind wine tasting game (the winner receives a bottle of wine)

About this Experience

✔ Health & safety measures apply
✔ Small-group tour
✔ No booking fees

DURATION: 3 hours
STARTING TIME: 6.00 pm
MEETING POINT: 3rd km, National Road Rethymno-Chania-Rethymno
LANGUAGES: English
OPEN SEASONS: May to October
WHO CAN COME: Crete wine tour is suitable for adults only. Children won't be served wine

Description - What to expect

While you are visiting Rethymnon, take the opportunity for an exclusive Crete wine tour. Try local varieties of wine at the Cretan House of Wine. Explore exquisite flavors and delicate aromas within every glass. Learn about the wine qualities of the region and how viniculture has shaped and contributed to Cretan traditions.

Start your Crete wine tour by tasting 11 different Cretan wines (each of 75ml per glass)
◾ White Wines: Vilana, Vidiano, Thrapsathiri, Plito, Dafni, Moschato Spinas, Malavazia Di Candia Aromatica
◾ Red Wines: Liatiko, Kotsifali, Mantilari
◾ Sweet Wine: Naturally sweet wine of biological agriculture from Liatiko

Next, enjoy a pairing of traditional food with wine, including specialties such as:
Apaki: Pieces of smoked pork
Dakos: Rusk with tomato and white cheese
Tigania: Pork with Cretan herbs fried in olive oil
Dolmadakia: Vine leaves stuffed with rice
Kalitsounakia: Traditional herb pie
Graviera: Aged yellow cheese

At the end of your Crete wine tour, play a blind wine-tasting game with a bottle of wine as a reward to the winner of the contest.

What's included, what's not

✔ Tasting of 11 different wines
✔ Meal (4 starters, 1 main dish, and a dessert)
✖ Hotel transfer

Free Cancellation

Change of plans? No problem, we have you covered! Free cancellation is available for this Crete wine tour for up to 24 hours before the start of the experience

Health and safety

✔ Provider complies with local legislation and applicable health recommendations with regard to Covid-19 prevention measures

Description - What to expect

While you are visiting Rethymnon, take the opportunity for an exclusive Crete wine tour. Try local varieties of wine at the Cretan House of Wine. Explore exquisite flavors and delicate aromas within every glass. Learn about the wine qualities of the region and how viniculture has shaped and contributed to Cretan traditions.

Start your Crete wine tour by tasting 11 different Cretan wines (each of 75ml per glass)
◾ White Wines: Vilana, Vidiano, Thrapsathiri, Plito, Dafni, Moschato Spinas, Malavazia Di Candia Aromatica
◾ Red Wines: Liatiko, Kotsifali, Mantilari
◾ Sweet Wine: Naturally sweet wine of biological agriculture from Liatiko

Next, enjoy a pairing of traditional food with wine, including specialties such as:
Apaki: Pieces of smoked pork
Dakos: Rusk with tomato and white cheese
Tigania: Pork with Cretan herbs fried in olive oil
Dolmadakia: Vine leaves stuffed with rice
Kalitsounakia: Traditional herb pie
Graviera: Aged yellow cheese

At the end of your Crete wine tour, play a blind wine-tasting game with a bottle of wine as a reward to the winner of the contest.

Latest reviews

  • Bries
  • Jul 7, 2021
  • Everything was wonderfull ! Great time and I recommand your company !

  • Michelle
  • A truly wonderful experience! All went smoothly and according to plan! Crete is a fantastic place to be. Thank you Platanos for all your support