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More Wine Events Coming to the Villages of Rethymno This Weekend

2018-11-01 by Phil Butler

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In celebration of the events for the distinction of Rethymno as European Wine City 2018 by the RECEVIN European Wine Cities Network, the Rethymno-Recevin Team, in cooperation with the Municipality of Amari and the villages of Nikiforos Fokas, has prepared a two-day wine event, dedicated to the villages and the hinterland, on the 2nd and 3rd November 2018.

Tags: Agia Fotini, Amari, Amari Valley, Argyroupoli, European Wine Cities, European Wine City 2018, Ilias Korkas, Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, Kato Malaki, La Grotta Boutique Wine Hotel, Malaki, RECEVIN, Rethymno, Rethymno events, Rethymno-Recevin Team, Saint George the Methystis, wine, wine tasting

Rethymno RECEVIN Offers Wine Tasting Tour November 10th

2018-10-29 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Rethymno European Wine City

The municipality of Rethymno and Rethymno RECIVIN are offering a wine tourism tour in Rethymno, on Saturday 10th November 2018, for the celebration of the European Wine Tourism Day the following day.

Tags: Cretan Wine Week 2018, crete, European Wine City, La Grotta, RECEVIN, Rethymno, wines of Crete

Last Chance: Enjoy the Rethymno Wine Week Finale

2018-09-28 by Phil Butler

Rethymno Wine Week

All this week, September 23rd through 29th, the businesses and the Municipality of Rethymno are celebrating Rethymno Wine Week, a festival dedicated to Cretan wine and gastronomy. Winding up today and tomorrow, the events will culminate with more special menus and wine tastings for attendees.

Tags: Cretan wines, RECEVIN, Rethymno events, Rethymno gastronomy, Rethymno RECEVIN, Rethymno restaurants, Rethymno wine, Rethymno wines, wines of Crete

Rethymno Named “European City of Wine” by RECEVIN

2018-04-22 by Phil Butler

Dourakis Winery

This week the city of Rethymno earned a new distinction in being selected a “European City of Wine” by the wine union RECEVIN. The central Crete coastal city is the first city of Greece, and the only town outside of Italy, of Spain and Portugal to have received the distinction.

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