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Let’s Talk About Resin
September 29, 2021 5 min read

Let’s Talk About Resin

By Olga Antoniadou

If you'd met me a few years ago and insisted on us drinking a bottle of Retsina, I think I might well have tipped the table in my effort to run away from the experience. It was beyond me why people drank that stuff, save the fact that it was cheap, affordable and could be found absolutely anywhere. But, to me, it was more of a tourist attraction or low budget student drink than a wine. Usually of unknown origin served in little copper cans, of a ¼, ½ or 1 Lt. And, I'm not sure if the resin made it a heady wine or, as students, we just had too much of it. Probably both.

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