History of Greek Wine

Greece proved to be the world 's oldest winemaking regions trace back to 6,500 years ago.

Since 1,600 years BC, with the outward diffusion of Greek culture , Greek wine began to circulate widely in the Mediterranean region, their worship of wine has spread to the area around the Mediterranean and in the ancient Greek, wine trade had been prevalent in the Mediterranean area.

Greek wine in Italy, the Roman Empire preserved particularly high status , while in the Middle Ages, the major ports via Greek, wine exports to North Europe are able to sell at high price the early use of wine is used as a medicine , the ancient Greek known as Vitis Vinifera Wine, and winemaking is popular in its colonial places - Italy, Sicily , southern France and Spain etc. Vitis Vinfera grape seed adapt well and thrive

in the northern Mediterranean coast because of mild winter and dry summer climate conditions.

Ancient Greece has many prestigious wines such as Chian, Coan and more than a dozen varieties, which Bibline and Praminian has appeared in ancient Greek poetry .

In ancient time, Greece already had implemented a variety of regulations and classification in order to protect and identify the wine industry and set up wine classification. Until 1816, French writer and winemaker, Andre Jullien, been studied and introduced the regulations and classification to France.

In 1937, the Ministry of Agriculture in Athens, Greece established Wine Institue, mainly forexperiments of wine making skills and to provide consultancy services for manufacturers. The modern Greek wine trade began at this time

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