Pine

Pine Wine
Probably everyone's first experience with Greek wine is with its ubiquitous Retsina. My personal introduction to Greek wine was in a small taverna in Northern Greece in the town of Saloníki.

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Contains pine resin which gives it a unique taste, and also serves as a preservative.) ...

Pinot Gris / Pinot Grigio (minerals, orange rind, pine)
Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are actually the same white grape. Two different names. In Italy and California it's known as Grigio, and in Oregon and France it's known as Gris.

For millennia the Greeks have added pitch (pine resin) to their wine to help preserve it from bacterial spoilage. While this seems odd in a time of high technology, it was the technology of the time.

Pitch: Black, tar-like and Gawd-awful to smell and taste, pine-cone pitch was used to seal amphora and other wine containers for shipping in early Greek and, especially, Egyptian times.

Retsina: Dry white Greek wine that has been flavored with pine resin. An acquired taste for most, this wine dates back to ancient Greece, where wine vessels, or amphorae, were sealed with pine resin or pitch.

The name may also refer to wines created predominantly from Pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French words for "pine" and "black" alluding to the varietals' tightly clustered dark purple pine cone-shaped bunches of fruit.

Fruity Grassy, spinach, artichoke, green banana, leafy, tomato leaf, bean sprout, green tomato, herbaceous, hay, nutty, almond, pine nut, orange, lemon, floral, spicy, apple, eucalyptus, perfumed, confectionery, buttery.

Pine pitch is added to white wine or rosé during fermentation to protect the wine from oxidation, traditionally a high risk during long sea voyages. Retsina pairs well with Greek cuisine and is served well chilled.

Most of these wine racking systems are made out of redwood or pine and come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and styles.

French-hybrid white-wine grape widely used in Eastern U.S. wines, sometimes crisp and dry but with a sometimes unfortunate pine resin or turpentine quality.
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Retsina. A dry white wine made in Greece, mostly from the Savatiano grape, to which pine resin has been added.

Vidal Blanc (Vee-dahl BlahN) - French-hybrid white-wine grape widely used in Eastern U.S. wines, sometimes crisp and dry but with a sometimes unfortunate pine resin or turpentine quality.

this white-wine grape is usually found as a 3-way blend with Aidani and Athiri grape white-wines in order to create popular styles. Also used as the base wine, along with Roditis grape-wine, in the well-known "Retsina" blends flavored with pine resin.

is usually found as a 3-way blend with Aidani and Athiri grape white wines in order to create a popular sweet style known as "Vansanto". Also used as the base wine, along with Roditis grape-wine, in the well-known "Retsina" blends flavored with pine ...

The adding of pine resin in the wine represented one of those remedies, and this is still used today in one of the most renowned product of Greece, Retsina, as they believed this component had some preserving capabilities.

An aromatized wine is flavored by an additive such as orange peel, quinine, spices, or, perish the thought, pine resin.
Aspect
A vineyard's aspect is its topography, for example, its altitude, slope, and compass direction of its vines.

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Ponzi Vineyards--Winery maintains its focus on wine varietals perfectly matched to the Oregon climate: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay and White Riesling.

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