The controversial case of Retsina
There was very recently an article on Retsina written by Mark Squires who reviews Greece among other countries in Wine Advocate. You can read the article in this link but in a nutshell Squires argues that Retsina is a process and not a wine, suggesting that it is in Greece's interest never to mention Retsina in the same sentence as the word "wine" again.
While I may agree in some points, for example that the wines are rarely intended to age, I see it in a different way, pretty much described in the Retsina piece of my ebook The Vineyards and Wines of Greece 2017.
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