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THE LARGEST PORTFOLIO IN THE UK FROM THE MOST TALENTED PRODUCERS OF GREECE

£16.44

per bottle (750 ml)

DESCRIPTION

This retsina offers aromas of peach, mango, and lemon mastic along, white flowers and herbs on the nose. It nicely complements all seafood with its balanced acidity and long fruity after taste.

AT A GLANCE

Retsina
2019
12 ABV
Savatiano
Central Greece
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Grape 
 
Savatiano
Savatiano is the most cultivated white grape variety of Greece, the grape associated with the historic Attican vineyard and very closely with the unique Greek wine style of Retsina (wine flavoured with pine resin). Savatiano’s name derives from the Greek word Σάββατο which defines Saturday or the seventh day of the week and this in turns comes from the Hebrew word שבת or Shabbat. 
 
The word was adopted by the Greek populations of Orthodox faith and in variations by other Orthodox Christian populations in the early Byzantine times and it could be that the grape has a similarly long history. It is planted mostly in central Greece, though recently there are plantings also in Northern Greece and the Aegean islands. More information on product pages.
 
Producer
 
Mylonas

The history of Mylonas winery starts almost a century ago, back in 1917 in the region of Keratea in Eastern Attica, with our grandfather Antonis, whose main occupation was the vine and winemaking. He left the grape must to ferment in amphorae, since stainless steel tanks were unknown at that time.

Later the small business passed to his son, Dimitris, who continued the wine tradition of his father, expanding the enterprise with purchase of new vineyards creating at the same time a small, modern winery. Beside their father, three sons, Antonis, Tasos and Stamatis playing with soil and grapes as little children, growing up observing the soil, weather and wind learning how to talk with the vine, digging and pruning it so much that in the end it became part of themselves. It was only natural to turn the vine and the wine into their profession, Stamatis and Antonis studying chemists–oenologists and Tasos economics to run their small business.

Practically, the history of Mylonas brothers begins in 2000 when, after the loss of their father, they took over the responsibility to follow the steps and evolve what he made, even go a step further, as he did when the winery passed from his father.

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