Retsina

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RETSINA, THE GREEK TRADITIONAL WINE The retsina is very probably the best known traditional Greek wine in the world, anyone who has been to Greece for a holiday had the chance to taste this particular aromatic wine. Usually is offered in two versions, white and pink. In both versions, you can appreciate the scent but even more the taste and the characteristic resin aftertaste. In fact, which added to the wine during its fermentation phase gives that unmistakable and appreciated aroma, to produce retsina a pine resin is used (originally Aleppo pine trees were used). Greek retsina is a Greek product of other times, a wine that in ancient times was appreciated and widely consumed by the Greeks as well as by those who passed through Greece for trade or tourism. In recent times, after spending a period of reduced consumption, retsina has once again become one of the most sought after wines thanks to the flourishing of new production companies that have renewed its image and have proposed new recipes and new ways to consume it. Today is a white wine that can be pleasantly enjoyed cold during the hot summer months , ideally by the sea with some tasty meze to accompany it. In short, one of the unmistakable experiences of the Greek summer. RETSINA, GREEK WINE BORN FOR NECESSITY The retsina has an uncertain origin from a temporal point of view, it is said that the ancient Greeks already drank an aromatic wine that maybe led to the modern retsina. But the retsina was actually born for a specific need. The pine resin was in fact considered an excellent natural insulator against the oxidizing action of the air , able to be shaped and adapted to any surface, managing to seal even the most irregular and porous materials. In a period in which there were not yet valid alternatives to hermetically seal the wine in order to preserve it, the pine resin was widely used to close the wooden barrels in which the wine was stored. Thanks to this procedure, the more the wine aged the more the