What to Drink
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 Greece has been producing wine since the Neolithic Age, and the god of wine, Dionysus, was worshipped throughout the classical period.
Nowadays, Greek wine production offers retsina, a piney, aromatic, resinated wine drawn from the barrel (beware: it's Hangover City in large quantities); dry red wines from Macedonia and Crete; and dry whites from Chalkidiki, Cephallonia, Santorini, Patras, Lemnos, Lindos, Crete and Attica.
The sweet white wine from Samos, locally called Moscatao, and the Mavrodafni from Patras and Cephallonia are fine dessert wines.
Ouzo, the traditional aperitif of Greece, has a strong anise flavor and clouds when diluted. Brandy is the aperitif drunk in the winter.
Greek coffee is a much better variation of the thick, sticky coffee offered in Turkey; try pikro (bitter), metrio (semi-sweet) or gliko (very sweet). And if you like ice coffee then you'll love frappe'. Try it with or without milk and again with as much or as little sugar as you want.
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