Ep 503: Greek Wine -- The Updated 10,000 Foot Overview

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Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This show is an update to our previous shows on Greece. We hope to get you (re)started on your exploration of this ancient winemaking nation that has been reborn in recent years. Greek wines are unique, terroir-driven, and they harken back to the nation's ancient past and the very foundations of wine as a major part of the history in western civilization.

With recent investments and modernization, the wines are better than ever and are worth exploring.

Map from the Wines of Greece

Although the places and grapes can be hard to pronounce (we did our best 🤷🏻‍♀️), they are easy to love. Take a listen and then seek these out -- you won't regret it!

Here is a list of places and grapes we mention:

Notable Appellations

Xinomavro PDO appellations: Naoussa, Amynteo, Rapsani, Goumenissa

Agiorgitiko appellation: Nemea PDO

Mavrodaphne appellation: Patras/Peloponnese

Moschofilero: Mantinia PDO/Peloponnese

Assyrtiko appellation: Santorini

Liatiko, Vidiano, Vilana, Kotsifali: Crete

White grapes: Assyrtiko, Aidani, Moschofilero, Vidinao, Villana, Malagouzia, Roditis, Debina, Malvasia, Muscat of Alexandria, Savatiano, Sauvignon Blanc

Red grapes: Xinomavro, Agiorgitko (St. George), Mavrodaphne, Stavroto, Krasato, Limnio, Liatiko, Kotsifali, Mandelaria, Negoska, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Cabernet Franc

Xinomavro. Credit: Wines of Greece

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Main Sources:

"The Wines of Greece", Konstantinos Lazarakis. Infinite Ideas; January 22, 2018.

https://winesofgreece.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the Podcasts for People who like Wine for Normal People,
0:09.8	the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:13.2	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider author of the Wine for Normal People Book and
0:19.5	certified wine dork and I'm MC Ice just a wine-loving normal person. It's 2024 and I am so
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0:45.7	Listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:48.8	MC Ice, you haven't been on the show in forever
0:51.7	since episode 500 and we're already up to 503. Where have you been?
0:56.2	Time flies. It was very nice to have a little bit of time off for the holiday. I hope everybody enjoyed their own holiday. We had a very funny conversation on
1:05.8	patron about the bad gifts that people received and what they would be doing
1:11.0	people are you wait is it was this an actual discussion or were you just venting to everybody?
1:16.8	I did not receive many wine gifts.
1:19.3	Well, we should we just reveal how the holidays go down in our house? It works. Yes, it does work. I just
1:26.0	buy all of my own presents and then give them to MCIs to give to me. It brings me incredible
1:32.2	joy.
1:33.0	Because gifting is not your love language.
1:35.6	It is not.
1:36.6	You do not as much as I, you really like it.
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