The Wine

Okay, so you're in Greece (if you're not, use your imagination). In the country that created and worshipped Dionysus, the god of grape harvest and wine. The country loving its tradition and history. 'Let's have a meeting without the wine' - said no Greek ever. You can't just eat dinner there without drinking at least one or two glasses of this drink.

Wine is usually made from fermented grapes but also other fruits or rice can be used in production of this drink. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and turns it into ethanol and carbon dioxide. Different kinds of wine are produced by different varieties of grapes and strains of yeast.
Warm climate and fertile volcanic ash soils in Mediterranean region let cultivate lots of grapevines to make wine. This one of the most popular alcoholic drinks in Greece is produced both on household and a large scale and sold all over the world in high prices.
First evidence suggesting wine-making in Greece goes back 6,500 years. Wine was used not only as a drink but also for medicinal purposes (e.g. by Hippocrates) and exported for trade.
One of the most popular Greek wines is Retsina that has even become the national beverage. It's name is treated by EU as a protected designation of origins, which means that only wine produced in Greece can be called by it.
We need do admit that the ancient Greeks were one of the best inventors in history, but do you think that wine is also their invention? Try to guess and speak if it's Greek

Joanna Szatkowska

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