Wine of the Week
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tourists are expected here thi.' year, according to the GO National Tourist Organ" tion, which is to have the
Let the hardy halt-million take heart : not 1,11 Greek wine is resinated. My wine of the wee"' for instance, is the unresinated, full-bodied white Santa Helena, grown in the Peloponnese, but 01/: tamable all over Greece, which I first draut' on the Olympic Airways flight from Paris. , It is sold in hock-shaped bottles, should o°' cost more than 4s. 6d. over the counter or about 6s. or 7s. in an Athens restaurant, and serves.° an introduction to a widening range of unres0 ated Greek wines, among which I can also co1u. mend the white Pallini Alpha, grown in Attica and lighter than the Santa Helena, and the red! Valpolicella-like, Rhodian 'Chevalier de Rhodci, which I am drinking now with an al fresco cheon in the February sunshine.
CYRIL RAY
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