Raki from Rethymno of Crete 500 ml

The raki or tsikoudia, or rakaki, or to be more precise, the "Saint Drop". The famous distillate of Crete, with its special taste and numerous health benefits, in its purest form! Aromatic and Rethymno, it comes to us from the rakokazana of barba Giorgis and fills our glasses with the product of the highest quality marcs from the vineyards of Crete!

Its grades are around 20 and it is classified in the highest quality category as the grapes have been boiled in less time. Thus, they have undergone less processing and as soon as the distillate first comes out it is almost hot!

Analyzing its main name, that of "raki",  we realisethat etymologically comes from the word ΄΄berries΄΄ of the grapes. Where the berry in ancient Greek is found as "rax". So raki from the rax of our ancestors!

BENEFICIAL PROPERTIES FOR HEALTH

Raki is good for the heart! This magic alcohol causes vasodilation, thus reducing blood pressure. It also increases the good cholesterol (HDL) that protects our heart while lowering the bad (LDL). Finally, it helps in better platelet function so that thrombosis is prevented.

Beyond that, raki is considered antimicrobial while its use during a cold has magical effects on both fever and headache and "to catch a cold" as the elders used to say.

Extra tip: The ideal way to serve it is cold in small raki glasses that have just come out of the freezer!

Extra info: Standard on PET packaging. So it is very easy and safe to transport.

HISTORY "FROM GOLD" BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Who would have thought that Raki is the birth of a despair ?? 

From the version of the story that describes raki being born in the rakokazana of the monks of Mount Athos during the Middle Ages, we reach the second, the most recent and most dramatic. During the Turkish occupation, wine was banned in Greece according to the Koran. Desperate producers and traders who had even made special containers for their exports, squeeze their heads to find a solution. And they find it by squeezing the grapes, not for wine but to add carob, anise and fennel and to make the aromatic drink that won the hearts of the Ottomans and was established in the Ottoman Empire as a superior drink!