New Year Pressies

 Neighbours have been popping in with homemade Xmas biscuits and bottles of this and that. All very welcome, more so by K.

2 x one and a half litre bottles Fousa wine. From a friend's small vineyard just down the road. Fousa is the name of the area.

Plus

5 litres of red wine from somewhere close by. That's for me because I enjoy red wine. When I'm drinking, which isn't often now.

Plus

*Raki 1 1/2 litres

Plus

1 litre of  raki made from 'moura' which I think are mulberries.

I tried a few drops of the mulberry raki. Usually can't stand the stuff. It's firewater. And the mulberry was firewater too. I won't be drinking anymore of that!!

*Raki

Distilled from the pips and skins leftover from the grape harvest.

It's antibacterial properties are thought to be good for digestion and gut health. I can imagine it killing 99.9% of all known germs and a good percentage of its drinkers. In the end.

Called raki in Crete.

Elsewhere known as either tsipoura or tsikoudia.

Plus

A bottle of ouzo 

Plus

3 bottles of wine from son in law. 

We shall be 'slow drinking' 

Drinking in moderation while enjoying good company , good food and conversation.

Says me

Oh hell! I just remembered the 60 litres of boxed wine that's outside in the K-shed. 

Have we got a certain reputation....... or what? 

I hope there will still be plenty for summer visitors. The real Greek experience. 

PS a few bottles of olive oil would have been nice too