{"id":3884,"date":"2021-08-23T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winesofcrete.gr\/news\/cretes-wine-renaissance\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:41:13","slug":"cretes-wine-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winesofcrete.gr\/en\/press-reviews\/foreign-sources\/cretes-wine-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Crete\u2019s Wine Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it was the Venetians, however, who most influenced Crete, setting up trading ports along the northern coast to make Crete\u2019s wines and preserved produce famous throughout Europe.<\/p>\n

Crete is an amazing island. The southernmost land in Europe, it lies 120 miles east to west in the Mediterranean, just north of modern-day Libya and Egypt.\u00a0 It is 38 miles across at its widest, but to get from north to south, you have to hairpin-turn your way over a range of mountains that have bedeviled conquerors and is home of some of the most-stunning canyons in Europe.<\/p>\n

Click here for Crete’s Wine Renaissance Slideshow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps the oldest civilization in Europe \u2014\u2013 the Minoans \u2014\u2013 lived here more than four millennia ago, yet they were advanced enough to leave us many traces of how and where they lived, including both wine and olive oil presses.\u00a0 The Minoans were followed by boatloads of invaders and traders who all made their marks on the land and the culture \u2014\u2013 the Romans, early Jewish settlers, Byzantines, Ottomans, and Greeks from the mainland.\u00a0 Perhaps it was the Venetians, however, who most influenced Crete, setting up trading ports along the northern coast to make Crete\u2019s wines and preserved produce famous throughout Europe.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I flew into Chania, the quaintest and most-tourist-friendly of the old Venetian ports, on a short flight from Athens to visit wineries and to talk with the winemakers \u2014\u2013 as well as liberally sample the island\u2019s foods.\u00a0Click here to learn more about Crete’s burgeoning wine regions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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