Greece

Greeks are amongst the first peoples to have produced wine into the world and Greece has some of the oldest vineyards extant, making the country justifiably famous for its great local wines. The earliest evidence of wine production in Greece...

Greek wines are famously considered some of the best in the world, and Greece is home to a number of varieties found only in the country. After over fifty thousand wine lovers and experts participated in the voting, Botilia.gr, a...

Greece is one of the oldest wine regions in the world and one of the first wine-producing areas in Europe.

Winemakers from across Greece have pooled their efforts recently to save a total of eleven endangered grapevine varieties which are threatened with extinction in the country. The team believes that these efforts to save the Greek grapevine varieties serve as...

The white wine ''Sole Semillon'' from Northern Greece's Biblia Chora Estate was recently declared the ''Best Greek wine for 2019'' at a prestigious wine competition in France. The wine originating from the Mount Paggeo region in Greece's Eastern Macedonia earned...

All wineries across Greece will be open to the public on Sunday in celebration of Wine Tourism Day, giving visitors the opportunity to see how wine is made and to taste different varieties of the beverage. "European Wine Tourism Day"...

Greek wine production is forecast to decline by 10.48 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to data presented by the Greek Department of Wine, Vine and Alcohol in a report sent to the European Commission on...

This weekend, Wines of Crete, the association that groups together the winemakers of Greece's biggest island, will be throwing open the doors to OiNotika 2018, the Cretan wine fair, in the city of Chania. During the event, visitors will be...

Greece's government is to abolish an excise tax on wine introduced in 2015, after the completion of the third bailout program review. Agricultural Minister Vangelis Apostolou, speaking on Tuesday an Athens event organized by the National Interprofessional Organization of Vine...

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to abolish an excise tax on wine introduced by the current government in 2015, during a visit at the Oenorama 2017 wine exhibition in Athens on Saturday. “It is our firm commitment to abolish...

Enterprise Greece and the National Inter-professional Organization of Wine and Vine (EDOAO) have earmarked the sum of 5.5 million euros on joint actions to boost extroversion in 2017. Enterprise Greece and EDOAO co-organized a news conference to present a report...

Greek wine exports to South Korea have increased by 407 percent in the first four months of 2016, according to the Greek office of the Economic and Commercial  Affairs in Seoul. The document states that the Korean wine...

Greeks will have to pay a new excise tax on wine as of January 1st, 2016, according to a decision published in the Government Gazette. Specifically, the Special Consumption Tax on wine will be 20 cents per liter, or 15...

Greek wine, especially white, has become fashionable in the restaurants of New York and London and it’s certain that current production will need to increase to meet demand in the future, winemaker Evangelos Gerovasiliou told Praktorio radio station in...

Wine production in Greece fell by 16.24% in the 2014-2015 period to 2,800,000 hectolitres, from 3,343,000 in the previous period, surpassing initial estimates for a 3.44% decline in production. A Wednesday report by the central cooperation union of wine products...