The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum is hosting a Blind Wine Tasting Day on Saturday, 24 January 2026, at 12:30, in the “G. Anemogiannis” Hall of the Museum. The event takes place as part of the competition for a commemorative collectible wine, marking 80 years since the publication of the iconic novel Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas.

The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum and fourteen of Crete’s most renowned wineries join forces in a creative challenge: to capture in a single wine the personality of Alexis Zorbas, the emblematic hero of Nikos Kazantzakis—authentic, multi-dimensional, unconventional, joyful, and full of life.

Participating wineries:
Alexakis, Amargiotakis, Diamantakis, Douloufakis, Union of Heraklion, Zacharioudakis Estate, Idaia, Louloudis, Lyrarakis, Moinoterra, Dourakis, Paterianakis Estate, Strataridakis, Titakis.

Which Cretan wine will manage to capture Zorbas’ untamed spirit?

The answer will be revealed on Saturday, 24 January, by four distinguished wine experts:
Konstantinos Lazarakis MW, Apostolos Plachouras DipWSET,
Yro Koliakoudaki DipWSET, and Pr. Mondher Bouzayen, INP-ENSA Toulouse.

Ticket price: €80.00
Advance ticket sales: more.com

The ticket includes tasting of the winning wine on the day of the event, a tasting glass, free entry to the Wine & Culture Festival in Ano Archanes (7 February 2026), where the winning wine label will be presented for the first time, as well as a guided tour of the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, by reservation, on a date and time of your choice.

The event will be live-streamed. Further details will be announced soon.

More information about the tasting day on kazantzaki.gr:
https://www.kazantzaki.gr/gr/initiative-overview

The initiative is part of the project Crete – European Region of Gastronomy 2026.

Photo: Envato