In recent years, the Greeks have developed a love for wine, and the quality of Greek wine was witnessed a rebirth. In previous decades, Greeks didn’t have reason to truly love wine, as there were not many high quality wines on the market. Now you can find wine lovers everywhere! Wine fairs and tasting events are their meeting point and you can find people of all ages, who stir, smell, drink, spit and comment in their own language that is hard to understand if you are an outsider. They chat about tannins, years, acidity, body.

Any self-respecting wine lover makes sure that he has mastered the basics of wine first. How it is produced, how it is consumed, what varieties there are; later he learns how to taste and to interpret all the secrets that a wine unveils about itself, when we smell it and bring it to our mouth. When the wine lover feels confident enough for all the above, he moves on to the level of objective evaluation, because when a real wine lover evaluates, he leaves his personal preferences aside, commenting only on the quality of the wine. When you love something, you have to prove it through actions.

Having defined what a wine lover is, let us try to explore his soul. A real wine lover never shows off his knowledge on wine, because he knows that the issue is endless. Wine is complicated, it changes and evolves constantly; nobody can claim to know wine perfectly. Apart from being humble, a wine lover is also restless. He constantly seeks new aromas and flavours, and doesn’t want to miss a single one of the many faces of wine. Therefore, he is constantly informed, he travels and he his own Graal, which is no other than the absolute wine, the one that, according to the myth, is the Nectar, the perfect balance of aroma and flavours, the freshness of the sky and the weight of the earth united in a glass.     

Finally, the wine lover is a bon viveur. He loves life. He loves art. He loves tastes. He has many friends and he spends his time with them, while he constantly tries to spread the word to outsiders. He is not afraid of losing something, because he has learnt to share. There is no misery in wine; it is made for open people, not afraid of  falling in love and hurting. Wine carries all human feelings. Sometimes it is love, other times it is celebration, pain, playing, laughter; and with it, the wine lover learns how to live and feel. The wine is alive and speaks to us, and when someone hears to it for the first time, he will know that he is a real wine lover.

Famous wine lovers

Gérard Depardieu, Robert De Niro, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Thomas Jefferson