Comments on: Elloinos on Greek radio

By: elloinos

elloinos — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:58:33 +0000

Liebe Christina, I am blushing Thanks so much for taking the time to watch the video! I could not agree more with you that Ted was really skillful with his questions. It must be quite tricky interviewing somebody who has only “basic” command of the language, and I believe he has more talent than he might know. I love the what I am doing so much that it seems strange to call it “work”. I have no doubts that it will take a relentless effort on my side to succeed, but to me that is a challenge I love to take. As for Dublin, I am open to everything, if you sense honest interest, I will happily plan for a trip.

By: Christina Keramyda-Tritsch

Christina Keramyda-Tritsch — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:46:52 +0000

Lieber Markus,
I’ve just listened to the show with you and Ted and I’ve found it extremely informative, interesting, enjoyably well done, amazingly well spoken – both in terms of wine knowledge and your knowledge of greek! It was a “full bodied” conversation and I really enjoyed listening to both you and Ted, who really posed all the right and good questions! Brilliant! I am really, really happy for you, that you do something that you’re so passioned about and feel thankful for your enormous efforts to bring these lovely greek wines to Germany, Great Britain and who knows, one day, even to the whole world! I wish you all the best and a huge success – even if – as you’ve said on the show – this will take you one or two more years. It’s worth it! Keep up the good energy and the brilliant work as a greek-wine-ambassador!!!

Zum Wohl and Slainte (irish)!!!!
Christina

PS. I’ve visited 2-3 wine shops in Dublin last year to check if they sell greek wines at all and found only one until now that, as the owner told me, would bring greek wines in the near future. Haven’t been there since, so I can’t tell you what kind of wine he may have brought. So, how about paying Dublin a “wine”-visit?! )

By: elloinos

elloinos — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:58:41 +0000

Peter, thank you very much for your kind words. I did have a great time with Ted on the show, and I agree, the only way to learn Greek is to practise speaking it. As long as I can get my points across, I don’t worry too much.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:54:21 +0000

Markus, your chat with Ted was engaging, I learned a few things and your Greek is fine…practice makes perfect!

By: Yiannis Papadakis

Yiannis Papadakis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:58:40 +0000

Luckily, my second attempt was successful and I finally listened to this part of the show.

By: elloinos

elloinos — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:54:19 +0000

Yianni, maybe there was a loading problem with the video? The file is quite large – you might wish to open it again, then click on “pause” button and wait for 30 minutes or so while the file is loading. You can see the loading progress on the lower bar. Once it has loaded, you should be able to play it without any problems.

By: Yiannis Papadakis

Yiannis Papadakis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:49:27 +0000

It’s interesting to know that a show on wine exists on a Greek radio station. I’ll try to follow it from now on. I tried to play the attached video of the show, but the sound went off after a while. What a pitty!

By: elloinos

elloinos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:03:27 +0000

Ted, it was fantastic being on the show with you, and I am grateful for the opportunity. As you can read in this comment section, the feedback thus far has been excellent. Count me in on sharing a good bottle of wine with you any time, I’d say both off AND on air!

By: Ted Lelekas

Ted Lelekas — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:40:01 +0000

Markus – it was a pleasure having you on the show. I hope there will be many happy occasions for us in the future to talk about wine and share a good bottle, on or off-air!…

By: elloinos

elloinos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:52:55 +0000

Kosta, thank you so much, it means a lot to me to receive such reassuring comments. I doubt that my Greek is as good as you say, but at least it enables me to communicate – it is better for me to speak up and try to communicate my passion than to be quiet and worry about the grammar. Riesling and Spaetburgunder are both excellent grape varieties, and wines from the latter have made a lot of progress over the last years. Maybe it is far fetched, but I have made many valueable contacts with German growers and would like to introduce some of their wines to the Greek cavas. I am so glad that you enjoyed the Dalamara Paliokallas. They do such great work with Xinomavro, and at the same time they are so down to earth people – simply striving to produce the best wines. I am a massive fan of their wines, and they certainly deserve to be much better known. Ted Lelekas is very talented, and his radio show should be high on the radar screen of every wine lover. I am really glad he reached out to me, and I hope that the word will spread about his show. He is as passionate about Greek wines as I am. Thank you very much again for taking the time to interact through the comment section, I am honored to have people like yourself communicating with me and passing on their own knowledge along the way.