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World-Famous Santorini Wines Owe their Exceptional Quality to Island’s Volcano An assortment of Santorini wines. Credit: Marcelo Costa , CC BY 2.0/Wikipedia Commons Santorini’s wines are understandably world-famous for their exceptional quality and unique character, while the island’s vineyards are the oldest in Greece, some with trees planted 300 years ago. The island’s wines owe their unique quality to the volcanic soil of the idyllic isle. The highlights of Santorini’s microclimate are severe droughts, and strong, desiccating winds sweeping over the entire island; however, dense night mists rising from the volcanic caldera provide just the right amount of moisture for the grape crop. ....
The Drinks Business 15 December 2020 By Lauren Eads Greece is one of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world, and yet in modern winemaking terms recognition on a global scale has eluded its winemakers. Its ancient heritage for winemaking is well known, but its viticultural story has more often that not been resigned to history books, rather than the international wine stage. It’s not due to a lack of quality, but perhaps an unfortunate stereotype, combined with a somewhat introverted wine industry, that is to say, domestic rather than internationally-focused. Writing in his book The Wines of Greece, Konstantinos Lazarakis MW, explains: “I often see old friends at wine fairs in France, the UK or the US. Even today, when I invite them over to the Greek stands to taste some wine I frequently get the one-line response, ‘I do not like retsina’, as an answer. And it is wine professionals I am talking about here, so this just go ....