Greece Wine Pairing Dinner

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Please join us on Sunday, January 25th at 5:30pm for our monthly 5-course wine-pairing dinner featuring the country of Greece with its ancient sun-bleached ruins piercing blue skies, the balmy Aegean lapping an endless coastline and a culture alive with passionate music, wonderful cuisine and thrill-seeking activities.  Greece offers sunshine, whitewashed houses with bright-blue shutters, delicious food, and a relaxed lifestyle. And, as the cradle of Western civilization, it has some of the world's greatest ancient monuments. With its long history, incomparable sights, and simple lifestyle, Greece has a timeless appeal.

Greek gastronomy is a vibrant, healthy Mediterranean cuisine built on fresh ingredients like olive oil, vegetables, grains and seafood with diverse regional traditions reflecting its history while blending its ancient roots and absorbing influences from ancient conquests such as the Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.  It incorporates staples like moussaka, souvlaki, tzatziki, and fresh fish with unique flavors in dishes like spinach pies (spanakopita) and stuffed grape leaves.  Greek cooking has been shaped to a large extent by the country’s geography with its diverse character of the island and continental regions defining the culinary identity of each area.  The Greek word Symposio is as ancient as the Greek people and means “to drink in the company of others”.

Greece is a country where history, gastronomy and winemaking are deeply intertwined forming an unbroken thread that stretches back over 6,000 years.  Few nations embody such a seamless fusion of ancient heritage with living culinary and viticultural traditions as Greece does.  It also boasts the longest documented history of viticulture and winemaking on Earth with grape domestication and wine production dating back to 4500BC with Minoan Crete civilization. Greece is thus a country where the past is tasted daily, where history is made edible, drinkable and the center of social interaction.   

So join us to taste some of Greece's most iconic dishes paired with some of its most famous wines such as the whites Moschofilero or Assyrtiko from the island of Santorini or reds such as Agiorgitiko and Xinomavro as well as dessert wines like the Muscat from Sanos or the Vin Santo from Santorini or of course the popular Mavrodaphne.​

 

We sincerely hope you'll be able to join us!  Please call the restaurant for reservations at

(703) 455-3095

 

Rafagino Ristorante

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Can't wait to see you. Ciao!

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​​Eat well and drink passionately!

We would love for you to join us for a FUNtastic time!!!