Thimiopoulos

Meeting with Greek winemakers

Apr 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Christos Kokkalis, Dimitris Gouravas, Kokkalis, Michalakis, Papantonis, Parparoussis, Thimiopoulos

  Yesterday I had the great pleasure of welcoming a number of Greek winemakers at my home. Apostolos Thimiopoulos flew in from Thessaloniki, Christos Kokkalis and Thanassis Parparoussis shared a taxi from Pyrgos/Patras, Antonis Papantonis came from Nemea and Dimitris Gouravas from Athens. The first person arrived at 09:30 am, the last left at 08:00 [...]

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Meeting with Julia Harding, Master of Wine, in London

Apr 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Christos Kokkalis, Dalamara, Hyatt Andaz, Jancis Robinson, Joris Beijn, Julia Harding, Kokkalis, Palivou, Papayianni Claudia, Parparoussis, Thimiopoulos

I just came back from a 5-day trip to London, where I took my three eldest children for a Easter treat. We stayed with different friends and I took my kids to all the tourist attractions – a double-decker bus tour, Tower of London, Natural History Museum, London Aquarium, London Eye, Science Museum, Musical (Joseph [...]

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Dinner with Apostolos Thimiopoulos

Mar 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Ghi ke Uranos, Thimiopoulos, Uranos

Apostolos Thimiopoulos was in Athens on the 20th March. He flew in from Thessaloniki and had a meeting with US wine importers at the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Athens. I picked him up later in the day in Kifissia and we drove to my home. I prepared some stuffed lemons and we also enjoyed some [...]

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Wine Dinner at the ArtO2 Teloglion Thessaloniki

Mar 17th, 2009 | By | Category: ArtO2, Christos Kokkalis, Kokkalis, Thimiopoulos, Wine Dinner

  On the evening of 5th of March I had the pleasure of attending a wine dinner at the ArtO2 Ristorarte Teloglion in Thessaloniki. I was very much looking forward to this occasion, as Christos Kokkalis and Apostolos Thimiopoulos were organising the event. In total we were 10 people. Christos had some Greek friends visiting [...]

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Thimiopoulos, Trilofo

Mar 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Ghi ke Uranos, Thimiopoulos

On the 4th March I had an appointment to meet Apostolis Thimiopoulos at his family’s estate in Trilofo, about 15km south of Naoussa. I arrived a bit early and was greeted by his father, who took me straight into the family’s house where his wife prepared home made food. While we dipped our forks into [...]

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