Ρετσίνα Παλλήνης (Retsina Pallinis)

Greece · PGI · Στερεά Ελλάδα · 1 commune(s)

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Natural factors

The climate of the region is mild Mediterranean and ideal for viticulture, with abundant sunshine averaging 2,400 hours per year.
The favourable growing season for the vine lasts 275 days, with mild winters and a long, dry, warm vegetative period, while frosts are very rare and occur outside the growing season.
Rainfall during the ripening month is just 2.5 mm, with a mean temperature of 27°C, while average annual precipitation over the last seven years amounts to 573 mm.
In summer, predominantly north-easterly winds — the Meltemi — prevail, reducing the impact of summer temperatures.
The soils of the region are of moderate fertility, with medium-textured clay-loam, sandy clay-loam to clay compositions, slightly gravelly and mildly alkaline, rich in calcium and marly.

Human factors

Scientific analyses of clay vessels dating from 2200–2700 BC, found to the east of the settlement of Myrtos in southern Crete, showed that wine mixed with resin had been stored in them.
Before the invention of airtight glass bottles, the ancients used pine resin to seal amphorae, a practice from which the distinctive flavour of the wine is said to have originated.

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

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