| Ouzo |
| Ouzo is a 100% Greek product and Greece's national drink. Ouzo is created from a precise combination of pressed grapes and herbs and berries. It begins as alcohol made from grape skins or other local produce. It is then brought together with herbs and other ingredients, including star anise, coriander, cloves, angelica root, licorice, mint, wintergreen, fennel, hazelnut and even cinnamon and lime blossom. The mixture is boiled in a copper still, regulated by a taster. Ouzo is often drunk cold with added ice cubes and diluted with water. This causes it to turn a milky white color, a reaction caused by the aniseed oil dispersing itself in minute droplets. Ouzo drinking is an art. Or maybe it's a way of life. Ouzo symbolizes, more than anything else, the Greek way of thinking. This way of thinking is based on optimism, in everyday practice of the philosophy, and the joy of life! |
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