Greek/Meditteranean Red Wine

shortpaul | 10:33 Sat 13th Feb 2021 | Food & Drink

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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?

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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.