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What Do Pine Trees and Grapes Have in Common? In Greece, a New Approach to Retsina
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What Do Pine Trees and Grapes Have in Common? In Greece, a New Approach to Retsina

By Alexis Marie Adams

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Jun 27, 2017
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Photographs by Vincenzo Spione

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…

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