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WINE 101 with Kate Hawkings

GREEK WINE

Greece has been making wine for millennia, way longer than France, Spain, Italy and all our other European favourites. Crete, its largest (and my favourite) island, is where vines were first cultivated by the Minoan civilisation around 5,000 years ago, and a sophisticated wine industry subsequently grew up that eventually spread to the Greek mainland and beyond.

Although the 20th century saw mass industrialisation of wine manufacture, with production controlled by

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