Thassos shopping rewards travellers who want to carry the island home in a jar, a bottle or a block of stone. Market stalls and family shops here sell the same olive oil, honey and wine that fill the local table, alongside marble crafts and herbal soap made from island plants. The port town of Limenas … Read more
Thassos tsipouro is the island’s traditional distilled spirit, a clear and potent drink pulled from the grape pomace left after the wine harvest. Distillers across Thassos heat that pomace in a copper still each autumn, turning what most regions discard into a prized shot of village hospitality. The local Georgina grape lends the tsipouro a … Read more
Thassos wine carries one of the oldest and proudest stories in the Greek wine world. The island’s vineyards fed a trade so famous that Thassian bottles ranked among the best-known wines of all antiquity. Centuries of change carried that trade through a golden age, heavy taxation and a long decline as olive groves took over. … Read more
Tsipouro is the clear grape spirit that rules the tables of Thessaloniki, poured in small bottles across the tavernas the city calls tsipouradika. The drink comes from the pomace left after the grape harvest, distilled into a spirit that carries the northern Greek habit of eating and drinking in slow rounds. A tsipouradiko sets the … Read more
Meze and ouzo are at the heart of Greek dining — small plates shared slowly with cloudy anise spirits in an ouzeri or mezedopoleio. Savour the ritual alongside skip-the-line sightseeing tickets and tours from My Greece Tours. The meze-and-ouzo ritual is one of the great pleasures of the Athens travel guide. The sections below cover … Read more
Tinos raki is the island’s traditional grape-pomace spirit, clear and potent, distilled each autumn in the social ritual of the rakizio and drunk in small glasses alongside the meze plate. Centred on villages like Falatados, it greets guests and toasts celebrations across the island. This guide covers what raki is, how it is made and … Read more