Extraordinary Opportunity Tonight, January 31st, 2014 5-8PM, Learn About Greek Wines With Greek Expert Sotiris Bafitis & His Friend Nassos Papnikolau @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, 3423 Conn. Ave. N.W. 20008 : No Charege, JOIN US : Learn, Experience!

JOIN US TONIGHT : Friday, January 31st, 2014 : Help us finish January 2014 with a bang with Sotiris Bafitis that put GREECE " On The Map : In Washington D.C. and the metropolitan area!  Sotiris brings with him to taste someone that's been in the wine-food business here for ten years, that Sotiris has worked with for five years - Nassos Papanikolau to help him pour the five wines we have all selected to offer you tonight. It's an extraordinary opportunity to really get to know the wines of Greece tonight!

We will taste :  1) ADOLI GHIS 2011 from ANTONOPOULOS, $21.99, 12.5% alcohol by volume,  a complex and flavorful and great mineral and extraction along with citrus and terroir and everything you want in a dry, complex white for this cold weather, for the flavorful ' comfort foods ' we eat to warm our bodies and souls at this time of the year! It's wonderful, really wonderful!  2) a dry red blend 2006 of Cabernet and Nea Dris - an indigenous grape no one has ever, EVER heard of, from ANTONOPOULOS in Patras, Greece , $32.99 a bottle, 14.5% alcohol by volume, on the mainland - this will show what ' bottle-age ' can do to a wine, make it smoother, more of it revealed, the secondary and tertiary layers of flavor and taste - a food wine for sure!  3) Nemea 2010 dry red made from 100% Agiorgitiko grapes, by MITRAVELAS ESTATE in Nemea, Greece, 14.5% alcohol by volume, : a classic Greek dry red, $25.99, matured for 12 months in new French oak casks, and cellared for another year at least before released, unfiltered - the " real deal " : a fine, earthy, dusty-dry, rustic and great food wine that develops slowly ... 4) 2006 Private Collection dry red wine from Patras, Greece from ANTONOPOULOS, On Special at $17.99 a bottle, 14% alcohol that has become a favorite here of our customers, that's another exceptional food wine. Anyone having lamb tonight?!? It's a good matching, it really is.  5) " Red On Black " Nemea 2012, made again from the classic , indigenous Agiorgitiko grape, from the MITRAVELAS ESTATE in Nemea, Greece, this $14.99, 13.5% alcohol by volume is a relief from all the others : lighter, brighter, more deep red garnet, fruit-forward, fruit-bright,fruit-fresh medium-to-light-bodied red that can be enjoyed with or without food! Aahhhhh, nnniiiicccceeeee! It will provide a contrast to the other three reds , and is a very fine value, too. Come taste tonight, LEARN about Greek wines from Sotiris the EXPERT! No charge, join us, everyone welcome! Anthony(TONY)Quinn1/31/14