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White Logo featuring a wine glass motif with the text: 'The Secret Gorge - Wine Tasting Experience'
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A Wine Tasting & Food Experience in Crete's Most Unique Restaurant.

At a carefully selected spot

hanging from the side of a gorge in Crete, you and a small group of guests will have the unique opportunity to indulge in a truly unforgettable wine and food experience. 

Sunset view from restaurant balcony in Rethymno, Crete.
Stone built entrance to wine tasting space at night, lit up.

In this experience

you will taste a curated flight of Greek wine labels, all made from native varieties grown in the Greek vineyard, whilst dining on delicious traditional Cretan dishes that are prepared on the spot with genuine local ingredients and cooked with care.

The experience includes

  • Wine tasting session with traditional Cretan food in an idyllic setting.
  • Eight Cretan dishes cooked on the spot with locally sourced ingredients.
  • Eight premium Greek wines that stand out of the competition.
  • Tutored explanation of Greece’s local winemaking heritage.
  • Limited to a maximum of 12 guests.
Wine tasting table with glasses, wine bottle and wine distributor with a gorge and sunset view.
Cinnammon sticks

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Aged Cretan cheese platter<br>

Aged Cretan cheese platter

A variety of aged Cretan cheeses that include Graviera & variations of Mizithra.

"Dakos"

"Dakos"

Hard Cretan rusk with grated organic cherry tomatoes and “Mizithra” cheese  with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

"Apaki"

"Apaki"

Cured pork smoked over an olive wood fire and cooked in extra virgin olive oil with “Mavrodaphne” wine, raw thyme honey and wild herbs.

"Dolmades"

"Dolmades"

Tender vine leaf rolls stuffed with rice and Cretan herbs, served with strained Greek yogurt sauce.

Potato Wedges

Potato Wedges

Freshly cut and pan-fried on gas fire in olive oil. 

"Tsigariasto"

"Tsigariasto"

Tender lamb that has been simmering in a clay pot with extra virgin olive oil for over 4 hours (as practised by the Minoans 3000 years ago).

"Sfakiani" Pita

"Sfakiani" Pita

Cretan desert pita stuffed with soft xynomyzithra cheese drizzled with raw thyme honey.

Wild Snails "Boubourista"

Wild Snails "Boubourista"

Wild-caught snails cooked with extra virgin olive oil and rosemary.

All our ingredients are locally sourced and 100% organic. Everything is cooked in extra virgin olive oil.

Inform during checkout about allergies & vegetarianism.

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