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Today the Ikarian wine, outcome of a surviving ancient recipe of storing the wine in clay jars buried in the earth, has acquired formal recognition of its identity and Ikaria is included in the list of the very few places in the world which produce dry wines with naturally high levels of alcohol.<\/p>\n
According to Homer, the heroes of the Iliad taste the magic powers of this wine to boost their fury before a battle. They drank \u201cKykeon\u201d which was a tonic made of Pramnian wine mixed with barley-grits and grated goat-cheese.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1563007681315{padding-top: 10% !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;background-color: #f1f1f1 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2449″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1563746700478{padding-top: 10% !important;padding-right: 10% !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;padding-left: 10% !important;}”]Authors in ancient and later literature describe the main features of the wine of Ikaria with almost the same terms: \u201cA wine which is neither sweet or fat, but austere and hard\u201d. In particular:<\/p>\n
-\u201cThe Pramnian, as they say, is fat and strengthening and it\u2019s not suitable for quenching thirst, but rather for alleviating satiety.\u201d (Eustathius)
\n-\u201c\u2026according to Frynichos, neither greasy or sweet, but Pramnian.\u201d (Diogenes Laertius)
\n-\u201cand this wine is a kind of wine which is neither sweet nor fat, but dry and hard and of exceeding strength\u2026\u201d (Athenaios)
\n-\u201c\u2026it\u2019s a praiseworthy, although hard, wine\u2026\u201d (Hesychius)
\n-\u201c\u2026 the wine of the Ikarians is strong and they always mix it with water.\u201d (Georgirenes)
\n-\u201c\u2026in Ikaria they make a wine which they call \u2018unmixed\u2019 and it is hard and very strong.\u201d (Stamatiades)<\/p>\n
In June 2006 the Greek State attributed to the wine of Ikaria the indication of geographical provenance \u201cLocal Wine\u201d. This was the result of a five-year long collective effort undertaken actively by the local authorities of the 1 st and 2 nd degree, as well as by Afianes Wines. The first official document which recognizes theparticularity of the Ikarian vineyard, is the decision of the Minister of Agriculture allowing the cultivation of the \u201cFokiano\u2019 variety of grapes in Ikaria, issued on January 3, 1970.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1563746716071{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 10% !important;padding-bottom: 10% !important;padding-left: 10% !important;}”]The rank of Ikaria amidst the wine-producing areas in the world is expected to rise even more thanks to a number of academic studies which are currently under development. To be more specific, wine scientists today agree that a very important role in the organoleptic properties of wine is claimed by the fungus which are found in different areas. In simpler words, different fungi in the same grapes will produce different wines.<\/p>\n
Given this fact, research is being done by academic teams to locate the specific group of micro-organisms which co-operate and attribute to the wine the uniquely unusual property of being able to mature in a concentration of alcohol of above 16 degrees in normal conditions of environment.<\/p>\n
And if in the beginning of the 1900s and in the 1920s wine represented 1\/3 of the agricultural products of the island (G. Lomvardas, \u201cIkaria, geographike tes Nesou perigrafe\u201d, and L. Spanos, \u201cIkariaka Chronika\u201d), wouldn\u2019t it righteously sustain a large portion of the Ikarian economy today?[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2446″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1563007691529{padding-top: 10% !important;}”][vc_column]\n\t
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