The glory of Greece

The drama being endured by Greece today is nothing compared to the country’s troubled history with wine

The Greek grape harvest: with the right supports for the region, we might speak of Peloponnesian wines the same way we speak of Bordeaux
The Greek grape harvest: with the right supports for the region, we might speak of Peloponnesian wines the same way we speak of Bordeaux

Yiannis Boutaris is the founder of Kir Yianni Winery in Macedonia, the vineyards of which would have been familiar to Alexander the Great. He is also one of Greece’s leading centrist politicians and mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. Last week, Boutaris and the mayor of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis, led a ...