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Besides giving birth to Dionysus, the god of sea, Greece is the
native land of VQPRD wines in history. They were the wines of Chios
and Thaso islands, renowned all over the Old World. For different
historical and social reasons, and because of disastrous natural
events, the art of making wine was neglected starting from the
middle XIX century until the early 1960s. That was the time when
the old tradition of making wine was rediscovered and nowadays it
is possible to find on the market so many excellent Greek wines,
which are produced all over the country. When tasting a Greek wine,
yoy have to keep in mind that it is the product of a different
environment and of grapes of different quality, unknown to all the
western wine-loving. Greek wines are divided into four different
classes: controlled origin denomination wines; superior quality
origin denomination wines, local wines and table-wines. |
