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Drinking the Mediterranean Landscape in a Glass
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Eat-Drink, Mixed Grill
It’s hard to focus on serious issues under 40 degrees Celsius… I know I repeat myself, but the heat wave seems endless this summer.
I try to concentrate on an analysis of the ”love era” between Greece and Israel. I have already outlined my main points but I won’t be able to write a single word until the sun goes down and some coolness will revive my spirit.
I also want to write an article about a Hotel in Greece that takes care of stray animals. An oasis of hope after the new incidents of animal abuses (it’s the dogs again!) in Greece. This topic will have to wait for a while, too.
I prefer to write about the dinner I had last night and the experience of drinking Mirto di Sardegna.
I was invited by a friend for dinner. Sifis cooked a wonderful Risotto al Fungi. I wouldn’t call me a Risotto-fan but Sifis is an excellent cook and much more that this, he has lived many years in Italy. So he knows what he is cooking about. We had Prosecco with the dinner. But after dinner came THE taste experience.
I didn’t even know there was such a thing! It is served after dinner, in small glasses. And it tastes…. O-M-G! I really felt like the Corsican prisoner returning back home in “Asterix in Corsica”. You might know this guy, who, while on a sailing boat, he starts listing the smells of Corsica…
Well, Mirto di Sardegna, a liquor made out of the berries of myrtle tree, similarly seems to contain the whole list of flavours of a Mediterranean landscape! No so sweet but rather bitter and very slightly resinous in taste, it’s ruby red in colour…. Sifis and I started to brainstorming about the flavours the liquor was reminding us. We thought in terms of landscapes.. It wasn’t Chalkidiki or Cyclades, but rather the landscape of Chios island. we concluded.
Mediterreanean Flavours
Have you ever walked around a mountain side on an island? Have you stepped in goat paths, surrounded by wild growing herbs and bushes? Have you hold on for a moment and taken a deep breath of a bouguet of thyme, rosemary and oregano? Have you ever sensed the smell of dry and sun burned soil? Have you inhaled the sea and its salt? Have you grabbed for a twig of a myrtle tree? ALL the flavours are captured in the small glasses and elegant bottles of the sardinian liquor.
We chatted til the morning …. and I heard that we emptied the bottle.
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