Greece

The historic Grande Bretagne Hotel was built less than fifty years after Greece won its independence and the modern Greek State was beginning to take form. It was built across the King's Palace and now stands across the Greek Parliament...

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...

Santorini's wines are world-famous for their exceptional quality and unique character, while the island's vineyards are the oldest in Greece

Retsina is a Greek wine with a distinctive pine and resin flavor that people usually either love or hate. It is a refreshing drink with a long history dating back to over 2,000 years and is linked to the...

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...

Giannis Paraskevopoulos, of Gaia Winery on the Greek island of Santorini, makes underwater wines which undergo a process of underwater aging.

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...

Greek authorities on Wednesday were put on alert after it was confirmed that a case of swine fever disease was recorded at a small family farm in the region of Serres, in northeastern Greece. The case, the first in the...

Experts recently announced that 2019 will be one of the best -- if not the best -- year in a decade in terms of the quality of Greek wines produced in the northern part of the country. As is widely known,...

In the past two years climate change has taken its toll on wine making in Greece by causing the grape harvest to decrease at an alarming rate, according to a recent Euronews report. The phenomenon is worldwide -- and it...

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva said on Friday that Greece has decided to ban imported pork from her country, due to an outbreak of African Swine Fever disease that has been detected in thousands of animals in Bulgaria over the...

Although Greece is well known as a producer of great wines, due to its ideal climate for vineyards, in recent years Greeks have also turned their tastes toward beer. Microbreweries are popping up right and left in all parts...

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...

A huge exhibition of the best wines Crete has to offer will take place in Chania on April 20th and 21st, 2019. The Oinokritika Wine Festival 2019 will highlight Crete’s major wine networks as well as smaller wine distributors. In...