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Retsina is a Greek wine with a distinctive pine and resin flavor that people usually either love or hate. It is a refreshing drink...

Archaeologists have discovered an important artifact in Cockermouth, England - a bust of the ancient Greek deity Silenus associated with Dionysus. Dionysus was an ancient...

Celts consumed Greek wine according to a recent study of ceramic containers which have been excavated from the hillfort site of Vix-Mont Lassois in...

Greek wines are famously considered some of the best in the world, and Greece is home to a number of varieties found only in...

Giannis Paraskevopoulos, of Gaia Winery on the Greek island of Santorini, makes underwater wines which undergo a process of underwater aging.

Mixing wine and seawater may sound unappealing today, yet it is a winemaking practice that goes back to Ancient Greece, later to be followerd by the Romans

The oldest wine in Europe was discovered recently in ancient Philippi of northern Greece, the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University...

Ancient Greeks loved wine and it was an integral part of their lives. Dionysus was the god of wine and they organized festivals in his honor

The largest wine press in the entire Byzantine world was discovered recently in central Israel. Archaeologists say that the gigantic wine factory could produce...

Greece is one of the oldest wine regions in the world and one of the first wine-producing areas in Europe.