“Retsina, yuck.”
!!!!!!!!!!!!! For SHAME, Amerikaneetha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Retsina is the very nectar of the gods. I was in college before I learned that most wine tasted like vinegar (too bad the French forgo how to make wine.)instead of nice, honest turpentine!
Its still my favorite wine by far!
I think Retsina was a brilliant invention myself. It’s the first chemical anti-theft device. The Greeks obviously put pine tar in their wine so that the Turks wouldn’t steal the wine. It’s just brilliant in it’s simplicity.
You have to try Muscadine. It's made here in the South!
A couple of Halloweens ago I took a bottle of retsina and a bottle of mead to a party, and got some friends (I don’t drink) to try the retsina-mead-beer combo that may have been a Mycenaean favorite. We came up with a 1-2-3 proportion on that for flavor. Anyway, one of those friends has since added retsina to his “often” list.