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📍 Central Greece and Attica

Wine region ✔ Checked: 10.2026 · sources: 5 Updated:

The Athens area, home of Retsina.

Central Greece and Attica is a historic wine area of Greece around Athens. It is the home of retsina, Greek wine with pine resin.

Vines grow on the hills and plains of Attica, Boeotia and the island of Euboea. The main grapes are Savatiano, which makes most of the whites and retsina, and Rhoditis. The area is part of Greek wine and brings together many small designations: Mesogeia in Attica, Megara, Anavyssos, Thebes, Parnassus, Gerania, Atalanti Valley, Opountia Lokridos, Slopes of Kithaironas and Penteli, Phthiotis, Karystos and others.

Retsina has long been made with resin of the Aleppo pine. The resin gives the wine a distinctive taste. Retsina of Attica, Euboea, Thebes, Boeotia and other places is protected as a traditional term. The area is known for its dry climate and a long winemaking history dating back to antiquity. Many wines of the area are drunk young and chilled, with appetisers and seafood of Greek cuisine.

What it includes

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How it connects to Wine

📍 Central Greece and Attica ← grows in ← 🍇 Savatiano → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine

Part of
🗺️ Greek wine
Appellations
Greece: 📜 Retsina of Attica, 📜 Gerania, 📜 Thebes, 📜 Atalanti Valley, 📜 Opountia Lokridos, 📜 Parnassos, 📜 Slopes of Kithaironas, 📜 Retsina of Euboea, 📜 Ritsona, 📜 Ilion
and 17 more📜 Anavyssos, 📜 Karystos, 📜 Lilantio Pedio, 📜 Slopes of Knimida, 📜 Slopes of Parnitha, 📜 Retsina of Boeotia, 📜 Retsina of Thebes, 📜 Central Greece, 📜 Attica, 📜 Evia, 📜 Martino, 📜 Slopes of Penteli, 📜 Retsina of Gialtra, 📜 Retsina of Karystos, 📜 Retsina of Megara, 📜 Retsina of Chalkida (Evia), 📜 Phthiotis
Grapes
🍇 Savatiano, 🍇 Roditis
Olive cultivars
🫒 Konservolia

Frequently asked questions

What is retsina?

Greek wine with pine resin added, traditional in Attica.

What are the main grapes of Attica?

Savatiano and Rhoditis.

Where is this area?

In central Greece around Athens, including the island of Euboea.

What to read next

  • 📜 Retsina of Attica — A traditional white wine with added pine resin from Attica.
  • 🫒 Konservolia — A Greek cultivar of Central Greece; it once gave 70 % of the country's table olives, now about 30 %.
  • 🍇 Roditis — A Greek grape with pink berries, widely used for white wines and retsina.
  • 📜 Thebes — Local wines from around ancient Thebes in Boeotia.
  • 📜 Evia — A regional wine of Euboea, Greece's second-largest island.

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