An Introduction to Boutari Retsina Wine

Kathleen Lisson: Hi, I am Kathleen. Thank you for watching my video tasting on Boutari Retsina Wine. Now I am in downtown Albany tonight, but this Retsina, it brings a lot of camping memories. Mostly because it smells like a pine needle that just fell into the glass. Now the Greeks have been making Retsina for over 2700 years, and before the modern bottling technique was invented, they used to keep the wine in a ceramic bottle called amphora. They used pine resin to make sure that the bottle was air tight to retard spillage of the wine. Retsina is made from the Saviatiano grape and this bottle is 11.5% alcohol.

I paired it in a late lunch today with some Colby cheese, some pirogis and some imported Greek olives. This wine is nice yellow in color. It has good acidity and it's slight medium bodied, but the pine needle smell overpowers any fruit that might be in the glass. When I tried it, it was so with the cheese and the progy, but I found that the tanginess of the olives matched well with the Retsina Wine. I wouldn't try it again, but it's $6.50, the price set for this wine is reasonable for a wine tracker who wanted to experiment with a new type of wine. Well, I like camping, so I will finish this bottle of Retsina, yummy! And thanks for watching.


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