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Greco di Bianco (DOC)

he wine is made from Greco grapes. And it is produced in the seaside resort of Bianco in southeastern Calabria. Before the town became an independent commune, it was a subdivision of Gerace and the wine was therefore known as Greco di Gerace. Greco di Bianco is considered one of the most outstanding-it is also one of the rarest-of Italian dessert wines. It is made from grapes grown in a few but well defined vineyards in the province of Reggio Calabria. Greco di Bianco is made from the variety of the same name, which appears to have been imported from Greece in the 8th century BC. The antiquity of the wine is confirmed by a legend, according to which a force of 10,000 Locrians took sufficient strength and courage from copious draughts of the local wine to defeat an army of 130,000 men from Croton in 560 BC. The mythological tradition gives credit to divine as well as enological assistance, for Castor and Pollux were said to have been sent by Apollo to fight at the side of the Locrians.

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