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Santorini: The Wine of Gods

Wojciech Bońkowski, 07.07.2023

The Aegean island is now making some of the world’s greatest white wines. Ignore them at your peril.

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It all started with an earthquake and then the tension kept rising. At least that’s the impression you get when you first see the rugged beauty of Santorini. The impressive caldera, ripped open by a catastrophic volcanic explosion in ca. 1600 BC that destroyed the Minoan civilisation and was felt as far away as China, also created the perfect habitat for the grapevine.

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