Ρετσίνα Αττικής (Retsina Attikis)

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Styles

Natural factors

Attica is a basin that has been guarded since antiquity by the mountains Hymettus, Penteli, Parnitha, Kithairon, the Geraneia range, and Mount Patera.
Along the coastal zone, the Meltemi and sea breezes blow throughout the summer, moderating extreme temperatures.
The mean annual temperature in Attica is 18 °C, and its climate is characterised as genuinely Mediterranean, with proverbially high sunshine hours among the greatest recorded in Greece.
Winds in the area are light to moderate, mean humidity levels are low, frost is virtually absent, and hail and thunderstorms are rare occurrences.
Attica's land is predominantly infertile; its soils nevertheless display considerable variation in composition, a factor that contributes to the complexity of character found in the wines produced there.

Human factors

Archaeological finds to the east of the settlement of Myrtos in southern Crete yielded clay vessels dating to 2200–2700 BC, in which scientific analysis revealed that wine containing resin had been stored.
In 1914 the MARKO cooperative was founded in Markopoulo to serve the vine-growers of the municipality, with wine production at that time amounting to 200 tonnes according to the cooperative's records.
In the Attic vineyard, as throughout central Greece, the white varieties Savatiano and Roditis are grown mainly for the production of retsina.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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