Retsina

[Gabriel]

Chilled with a large meze, good company, and a table under the trees with the cicadas sounding above. Lovely. Anywhere else, dreadful.

 

[dickie davies]

I remember playing silly party games on a beach and being made to drink a pint of the stuff
The shandy drinking southern softies were extremely pissed off when I wasn’t bladdered or chucking my guts up. In fact I opened another beer

 

[discopop]

Chilled with a large meze, good company, and a table under the trees with the cicadas sounding above. Lovely. Anywhere else, dreadful.

Vinho Verde agrees with this post

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I had some in Greece years ago on the advice of a so called mate, it was fuckig disgusting. I kept seeing it in Lidl and today I finally decided to have another go. What a revelation I fucking love the Lidl version, cold as can be from the fridge. Sorry mate you were right all along.

It's come on a long way from when I first had it in the 80's. I love it always have 3/4 bottles in for when I put together a Greek Meze.

What you see in Lidl is the same bottle that you can pick up over there but a bit cheaper in Greece.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Went on holiday many years ago to Poros. Used to eat in a local fisherman's restaurant down one of the side streets in the town and they did retina straight from the barrel. Sometimes good, sometimes fucking awful and occasionally not half bad.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Tsiporo is the stuff

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Went on holiday many years ago to Poros. Used to eat in a local fisherman's restaurant down one of the side streets in the town and they did retina straight from the barrel. Sometimes good, sometimes fucking awful and occasionally not half bad.

I will keep my eye open for that place :-)

 

[HermanPant]

Chilled with a large meze, good company, and a table under the trees with the cicadas sounding above. Lovely. Anywhere else, dreadful.

Like ouzo and raki/tsipouro it is always better like this as this is its intended use...unless mixed with cola and drunk in large quantities before a football match. A drink known as the 'Toumba Libre' - taking it's name from the neighbourhood of PAOK FC.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Is it some kind of fence stain?

No, it's a condition of the eye that yer'd only inflict on St. Bruno when he was midway through his little Portuguese tarantella on the way to hitting the post from the latest pen leg up for the Rags confirmed by a three second VAR check.

 

[Gabriel]

Like ouzo and raki/tsipouro it is always better like this as this is its intended use...unless mixed with cola and drunk in large quantities before a football match. A drink known as the 'Toumba Libre' - taking its name from the neighbourhood of PAOK FC.

Akin to what they do with calimocho in Spain.