Originally Posted by
TMOliver
My long time Greek restaurateur/neighbor always claimed that the basis for adding the Aleppo pine resin to the wine dated to an era when the cheap, not very popular white wines from a part of Greece were fermented in barrels made from pine. uncured and rather "resinous". The tale always sounded credible...
We may have to get
ElmhurstNick to give us the true skinny on this, but I was told that they actually began to "spike" their white wine with Aleppo resin so the Ottoman Turks would think that all their wines were so terrible that they would not confiscate or otherwise look for them.
I do remember one rather enebriated gentleman at our Med-Fest coming back to the beer and wine booth asking for another bottle of that "bad sh!t." LOL Apparently, the drunker you get on it, the less offensive it becomes.
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