Kanenas Maronia Vineyards - International Wine
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Maronia - Historical Facts
The town of Maronia was founded in the 7th century B.C. Maronia was, according to Homer, the first station of Odysseus in his ten-year long Odyssey. He destroyed the town because its inhabitants supplied Troy with wine and olive oil. In order to appease Odysseus, the Apollonian priest Maron (who gave his name to the town), offered him pure gold and twelve amphoras with red wine from Maronia, this "sweet, pure and divine drink, so viscous, that for it to be drunk, it had to be mixed with twenty parts water" (Odyssey, Rhapsody 1, Verse 195-200). Odysseus escaped the Cyclops Polyphemus by getting him drunk on Maronia wine.
The region was also famed for its wine in classical times. The wine god Dionysus was venerated and celebrated like no other god. The theatrical games and also the ancient theatre of Maronia (3rd c. B.C.) were devoted to Dionysus.
Later, during the Roman times and Byzantium, Maronia continued to be famous for its vineyards and wine. In the 5th c. A.D. Nonnos writes in his "Dionysiaka" about the fruitiness of the Maronian wine ("Maronidos oinou oporas") and its sweet nectar bouquet ("Maronidos odmis nektariis). Historical sources report how the Roman Emperor Traenus visited the town of Maronia and sampled the local wines Ismaros and Maronios. Ismarikos was the first ever wine with appellation of origin status. Archaeological findings, such as an ancient mosaic of a vine leaf and two Byzantine wine presses with a slanted base, allowing the must to flow freely, further testify to the deeply rooted winemaking culture of the area.
Wines from Greece, Weine aus Griechenland, Вина из Греции, 来自希腊的葡萄酒，Wina z Grecji, نبيذ من اليونان، יינות מיוון, ギリシャのワイン.
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