Mavrodaphne

Laurie, it's simple, it's elegant and having played with Mavrodaphne & clove, I know it's nostimo!

Recipe: Clove Custard and Petimezi (Grape Syrup) (Κρέμα με Γαρίφαλο και Πετιμέζι) Laurie Constantino 2008

Other dishes are encouragingly doable: roasted halves of tomatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers stuffed with a rice mixture similar to the one for grape leaves but with currants, pine nuts, and grated cheese; yellow-split-pea mash, lush and sweet and pleasantly floury, with a caper-and-onion stew flavored with sweet red wine like Marsala or the Greek Mavrodaphne.

Dining with Dionysus 2008

Other dishes are encouragingly doable: roasted halves of tomatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers stuffed with a rice mixture similar to the one for grape leaves but with currants, pine nuts, and grated cheese; yellow-split-pea mash, lush and sweet and pleasantly floury, with a caper-and-onion stew flavored with sweet red wine like Marsala or the Greek Mavrodaphne.

Dining with Dionysus 2008

Among the suggestions: Dornfelder from Germany; Mavrodaphne from Greece; Banyuls from France; Port-style wines from Australia; and Rashi Claret from California.

Sharing A Love Of Wine 2008

The Mavrodaphne was one of several that struck the group during an evening wine-and-cheese tasting led by an expert the couple brings in from Athens.)

Dining with Dionysus 2008

The Mavrodaphne was one of several that struck the group during an evening wine-and-cheese tasting led by an expert the couple brings in from Athens.)

Dining with Dionysus 2008

Silently, in the widow’s position of honor at the head of the table, she picked at her whitefish and drank her glass of Mavrodaphne, but her thoughts were as obscured to me as her face behind her black veil.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002