18 - 19 February 2017

Umami Festival Thrace ’17

Astir Egnatia Hotel (Grecotel)

Umami Festival

Umami Festival is the largest event that TU events organises. It is the first premium wine and gastronomy festival, which promotes the best Greek wines and producers, alongside the specially limited and gourmet food products. This is a festival open to the public as well as the professionals, it has a premium character and its purpose is to expand and promote the important Greek wineries and gastronomic food products coming from every part of Greece, as well as some imported.

Place

Astir Egnatia Hotel (Grecotel)

Date & Time

18 February 2017, 12:00 - 20:00

Meet the top Greek wine

A meeting point for those who love, enjoy and want to know more about top quality Greek wine, high gastronomy, but also for professionals in Northern Greece who seek information and cooperations with producers and distribution companies.

Gastronomy & TU Events

TU and “Umami” gastronomy have always been synonymous! Thus, in such an important wine event, a special cooking scene couldn’t be missing. Three top chefs as well as our brand new TU Canteen will be offering generous tastes in a weekend that cannot be missed!

TU events team proved that, there are no limits and everything is possible, being in the spotlight again and reinforcing what our country produces so successfully, wine!

A tireless team consisting of dozens of young people eager to work, contributed to a “surreal dream” born in November 2016 by the founder George Touratzis, getting formed in just two and half months!

The “Masterclasses”, with Mr. Stelios Boutaris (Ktima Kir Yianni), George Floudas and George Kyriakopoulos, combined with the seminars of Vasilis Galanos and Dimitris Antonopoulos, crowned with success, giving an educational and informative character to the festival, which occurred for the first time at the northernmost point of the country.

Regarding the gastronomic part of the festival three top chefs Feridun Ugumu, Erhan Seker, Chronis Damalas and the TU Canteen distributed generously culinary experiences to all participants.

Like in every TU event, we support the food concentration effort of SOS Children’s Village Thrace. With each entry, each ticket, presence in masterclasses and every dish to our gastronomy events we tried to distribute more children’s smiles!

We are completely satisfied with the result, but also with the fact that young people gave vibrancy to the festival, honored us by traveling from far in order to participate and showed preference to the eponymous Greek wine. An important source of optimism and hope at a time we most probably need it more than ever.

We send our love to those who believed, contributed, worked and helped in order to make Umami Festival 2017, the first Wine and Gastronomy Festival of Thrace.

Countless digital and print media in Greece, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey, hosted tributes to the festival and helped us reach our message in every corner of our country and abroad.

TU entered dynamically in this field and you can only expect more from us. Get ready since we will soon announce our next project!

Greece’s wine and gastronomy map redesign has already started and you are the most important part of it!

See all the wineries that took place

The Schedule

Friday February 17, 2017 20.00 | The Wine Producer's dinner Umami Festival honors people behind the products that bring us so close. So, as an example of our hospitality, the producers that will be found in Thrace, Thrace, will enjoy a unique experience based on local cuisine.

Saturday February 18th, 2017 12.00 - 20.00 | Opening of the Wine & Gastronomy Festival Visitors will have the chance to get to know the top quality Greek wine producers, try over 300 different wines and gastronomic products. 15.30 - 16.30 | Xinomavro Masterclass by Stelios Boutaris Stelios Boutaris (Kir-Yanni estate), President of the Association "Wines of Northern Greece", will take us to Xinomavro's specialties through a flavourful trip of many different wines. * Very limited seats. 18.30 - 19.30 | Cheese & Wine Masterclass We have called 2 top ambassadors of each kind, who will represent each kind. George Floudas (Trinity Wines) and George Kyriakopoulos (Provence Deli) will present a unique Masterclass, marrying rare Greek wines and special cheeses! 21.00 | Asian Dinner Gastronomy A dinner cooked by top Japanese gastronomy and award-winning chef Chronis Damalas! By serving in top restaurants such as: NOBU, ZUMA, KIKU Mykonos / Santorini / Athens and Izakaya will cook for the opening of the Umami Festival at the restaurant of Hotel Astir Egnatia. *Only with pre-booking & limited number of seats

Sunday February 19th, 2017 12.00 - 20.00 | Wine & Gastronomy Festival Visitors will have the chance to get to know the top quality Greek wine producers, try over 300 different wines and gastronomic products. 17.00 - 18.00 | Wine Seminar with Vasilis Galanos 18.30 - 19.30 | Greek Gastronomy seminar with Dimitris Antonopoulos Seminar based on the importance and development of Greek cuisine into the global modern gastronomy. 21.00 | Ottoman Cuisine Gastronomy The Ottoman cuisine chef and owner of the historic restaurant Hunkar, Feridun Ugumu, together with the creative chef Erhan Seker, will come from Istanbul to share a unique dining experience with roots into the traditional Turkish culinary culture. The gastronomic event will be held at the Hotel Astir Egnatia restaurant. *Entrance only with pre-booking & limited seats are available.