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Crete: Full-Day Cretan Wines, Olive Oil, Raki and Food Tour

1. Crete: Full-Day Cretan Wines, Olive Oil, Raki and Food Tour

Join a tour with all of Crete's most iconic products. All the areas that you will visit are famous for their vineyards, the olive groves, and their wine production since the Minoan era. Even today they are considered the largest areas in Greece for cultivating grapes and high-quality olive oil. Stop at a local olive mill and take a tour of the olive grove and after the olive mill where you can taste fresh olive oil. The second stop is a family-owned winery that uses organic methods for cultivating. You will get a tour around the vineyards and the winery and taste 4 wines. The next stop is a unique distillery and then an ancient wine press. Raki is the most famous Cretan spirit. Take a tour of the distillery and enjoy a traditional lunch before finishing off the tour with a visit to a pottery studio located in a traditional village that is famous for its pottery.

Heraklion: Olive Mill Visit with Olive Oil And Food Pairing

2. Heraklion: Olive Mill Visit with Olive Oil And Food Pairing

"Kalos orisate" or "Welcome" in Greek. Visitors will have the chance to taste the unique flavor of Cretan Extra virgin olive oil and learn about the techniques Cretan use for thousand of years to produce it in the beautiful village of Skalani just outside of Heraklion. Visitors will be having a tour led by greek olive oil experts. They will visit a modern olive mill and witness how olive oil is produced, followed by a tour of our private olive grove and an olive oil tasting course accompanied by greek delicacies. Our guests will enjoy the beauty and tranquility of Cretan nature and countryside Kids and pets are more than welcome too.

Crete: Small Group Olive Oil, Cretan Wine, Raki & Meze Tour

3. Crete: Small Group Olive Oil, Cretan Wine, Raki & Meze Tour

This tour was created for nature and wine lovers. Would you like to learn all about locally produced products such as Wine, Olive oil, and Famous Raki? This tour has been created just for you. Be open to tasting local wines, and exploring rural Crete this tour it's for you. We visit one family winery in the Heraklion area where we take a tour of the cellar of the winery, learn how different wines are made, and then taste up to 5 different indigenous varieties. We will visit a family-run olive mill, having an olive grove tour, olive mill tour, and olive oil tasting. Finally, we will drive to a small village and to an undisclosed location, not open to the public, and learn all about Raki Distillation. At the end of the tour, we will get on our 4WD SUV and head to the mountain top at 850 meters to observe the Cretan fields from the top and the beautiful colors created on Mother Earth.

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