🗺️ Greek wine
The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grape varieties, appellations.
Greek wine is the wine of Greece. Winemaking here goes back to deep antiquity, and the country remains one of Europe's oldest wine lands.
Greece is divided into several wine areas: Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus, Thessaly, Central Greece and Attica, the Peloponnese, the Ionian Islands, the Aegean islands and Crete. Each area has its own grapes. Well-known whites include Assyrtiko, Moschofilero, Savatiano, Roditis, Malagousia and Vidiano. Reds include Agiorgitiko, Xinomavro, Mavrodaphne and Liatiko. Many of these grapes grow only in Greece.
Retsina, wine with pine resin from Attica, is well known. There are also sweet wines, for example from Muscat grapes. Greek wines belong to the wines of Europe but differ noticeably in style from French or Italian ones. The grape names are unfamiliar, but the wines show a link to sun and sea and to an ancient tradition of growing vines on the islands and the mainland.
What it includes
How it connects to Wine
🗺️ Greek wine → kind of → 🗺️ Wines of Europe → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🗺️ Wines of Europe
- Native grapes
- 🍇 Assyrtiko, 🍇 Muscat of Alexandria, 🍇 Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, 🍇 Agiorgitiko, 🍇 Black Corinth, 🍇 Savatiano, 🍇 Xinomavro, 🍇 Mavrodaphne, 🍇 Roditis, 🍇 Muscat Rouge à Petits Grains
and 35 more
🍇 Moschofilero, 🍇 Malagousia, 🍇 Mandilaria, 🍇 Kotsifali, 🍇 Robola, 🍇 Athiri, 🍇 Aidani, 🍇 Vidiano, 🍇 Kozanitis, 🍇 Moschomavro, 🍇 Mavroudi Arachovis, 🍇 Vertzami, 🍇 Agianniotiko, 🍇 Achladi, 🍇 Debina, 🍇 Muscat à Petits Grains Noirs, 🍇 Liatiko, 🍇 Batiki, 🍇 Krassato, 🍇 Vlachiko, 🍇 Bekari, 🍇 Centorotolli, 🍇 Corinto Nero, 🍇 Attika, 🍇 Limnio, 🍇 Negoska, 🍇 Mavrotragano, 🍇 Vilana, 🍇 Thrapsathiri, 🍇 Romeiko, 🍇 Lagorthi, 🍇 Karabraimis, 🍇 Limniona, 🍇 Monemvassia, 🍇 Aidani Mavro - Wines made here
- 🍷 Mavrodaphne of Patras, 🍷 Retsina
- Related to
- 🍷 Straw wine, 🍷 Vinsanto of Santorini
- Classifications
- 🏷️ PDO (Greece), 🏷️ PGI (Greece), 🏷️ Cava (Greece), 🏷️ Reserve and Grande Reserve (Greece)
- Grape products
- 🥃 Tsipouro, 🥃 Ouzo, 🥃 Petimezi, 🥃 Churchkhela, 🥃 Moustalevria
Frequently asked questions
Which grapes are typical of Greece?
Assyrtiko, Xinomavro, Agiorgitiko, Moschofilero, Savatiano and others.
What is retsina?
Greek wine with pine resin added.
How long has wine been made in Greece?
Since deep antiquity.
What to read next
- 🍇 Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains — The oldest Muscat variety, with small berries, giving aromatic sweet and sparkling wines.
- 🍷 Straw wine — Sweet wine from grapes dried on straw, reeds or in the wind.
- 🍷 Retsina — Greek white or rosé wine with added pine resin.
- 🥃 Churchkhela — A Georgian sweet: nuts on a string coated in thickened grape juice.
- 🏷️ PDO (Greece) — The Greek protected-origin wine category, covering about 33 areas.
Similar
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⚠️ Wine contains alcohol: adults only, drink in moderation. Wine usually contains sulphites; egg white or milk proteins are sometimes used for fining — important for allergies and for vegans.