Greek/Meditteranean Red Wine

[shortpaul]

In the 70's my friend's parents came back from a Greek Island,Crete I think, with a red wine. The wine appeared to have a unique taste and I've recently tried to identify it.It had an antiseptic sort of taste and it may have been derived from melon/watermelon.I'm not usually a big fan of red wine but this I liked. Yes, I've tried Demestica but I dont feel this is it. Can anyone identify it?

[woofgang]

it sounds like a retsina which is resinated and would account for the antiseptic taste but as for which one, who knows?

[woofgang]

oh sorry, you said red

[tiggerblue10]

Does this help?

https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-crete

[gingejbee]

I buy this quite often....

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/mavrodaphne-of-patras-greece/874788-210682-210683

[237SJ]

It wasn't Commandaria was it? My Aunty and Uncle used to go to Greece in the 1970s and they used to bring that back which I thought was terribly sophisticated at the time.

[Peter Pedant]

retsina - o god
buy paintstripper - it tastes better

[lady-janine]

Boutari?

[Old_Geezer]

No clues on the label ?