Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Kloutsiniotis brothers had the rather singular inspiration of mixing alcohol with olive oil and produce original ideas for cocktails. Hailing from the Corinthian region, the two brothers use two varieties of extra virgin oil (one of them organic) which gives their oil special taste attributes. 

Moreover, Panos and Thanos came up with another unique idea concerning the packaging. They use ceramic pots, identical in form to those used by ancient Corinthians for preserving oliveoil and essences. The ancient vessel, a globular flask decorated with demons and mythical animals was called Corinthian aryballus and was used 2,600 years ago by young athletes who smeared their body with oliveoil before exercise. "We had this bottle made especially for our product, and it turns out we succeded since, we have already won two design awards for our modern aryballus (vessel): The 2014 Red Dot Award and second place at the Pentaward competition in Tokyo," the Kloutsiniotis brothers boast.