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  • n  Greek wine flavored with resin

  • Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina.
  • In the unlikely event that one indestructible tourist had managed to survive the festivity of Tahiti, the retsina of Greece, the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and the elephants .
  • Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine.
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  • Greek Rhapsody enthralls
    Dust-to-Digital drops essential collection of Greek 78s by Doug DeLoach Lovers of historically significant folk and world music, let us raise a cask of retsina in tribute to Tony Klein, the British musician and researcher responsible for Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece 1905-1956. Praise also goes to Dust-to-Digital, the curatorial label, which released this thoroughly researched ...
    July 15, 2013 - Creative Loafing Atlanta

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