Recent Examples on the WebFor that reason, Bililies didn’t serve retsina at Souvla initially. Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2022 Souvla bottles a red, a white, a rosé, a sparkling wine and a retsina (a wine infused with pine resin) under its own proprietary label. Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2022 Gaia has two wineries, one on Santorini, which makes excellent whites, and one in Nemea in the Peloponnese, which focuses on reds and retsina.New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021 Intrepid wine lovers might want to take a chance with a retsina. David Tanis, New York Times, 2 July 2021 The retsina, a nonvintage Gaia Ritinitis Nobilis, was beautiful, bright and balanced with discernible piney highlights. Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2016 One of the first things wine novices learn is that retsina is awful. Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2016 See More
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Etymology
Modern Greek, perhaps from Italian resina resin, from Latin — more at resin