What Do Pine Trees and Grapes Have in Common? In Greece, a New Approach to Retsina
By Alexis Marie Adams
WE LIVED ON A PIINE-COVERED island in the Myrtoan Sea, between the Cyclades and the Peloponnesos. This was the 1970s, and I was the only child of an American woman driven to that far-flung place by wanderlust and curiosity. Summers were the Greece of postcards, but, we soon discovered, winters were bone-cold. In the evening…