GLOSSARY……of Greek wine-making.

Here are a few words that refer, specifically, to Greek wine-making.

Ampelonas:
Greek word for vineyard.

Aplotaries:
Vine-pruning method practised on Paros.

Bareli/vareli:
Greek word for barrel.

Canava:
Wine cellar or storage space on Santorini.

Candia:
Medieval term used to describe all sweet wine produced on, and exported from, Crete through the 17th century.

Greco:
Medieval term used to describe vines and wine exported or originally sourced from Greece.

Ktima:
Greek word for a farm or estate.. Not specific to wine properties.

Liasto:
Umbrella term used throughout Greece for sweet wine made from sun-dried grapes.

Malvasia:
Medieval name for sweet wine originally exported from the Peloponnesian port town of Monemvasia.

Moschato:
Greek name given mainly to Muscat blanc a petits grains.

Pot-still:
Small-scale distilling apparatus used throughout Greece to make tsipouro.

Retsina:
Wine made from grape must that has been flavoured with pine resin during fermentation. Unique to Greece.

Tsikoudia:
Cretan term for tsipouro.

Tsipouro:
Clear spirit made by distilling pressed grapes and their stems. Sometimes flavoured with aniseed. Not to be confused with ouzo.

Verdea:
Traditional, potent wine made on Zakynthos.

Vinsanto:
Medieval term for sweet, cask-aged wine made from sun-dried grapes on Santorini. Still used today.