Τhe pine has been dedicated to DIONYSUS because it is thought to sweeten wine; for they say that country abounding in pines produces sweet-wine grapes. It is also probable that the pine itself contributes to the growth of grape vine since this tree is rich in substances efficacious in preserving wine and guaranteeing its quality. Many people mix wine with resin. . (Plutar. Table-task 676 A-B)

One of the ancient names of the isle Aegina was Oenopia. . (Pindar Isthmian 8.21) Selencus, a Greek grammarian from Alexandria who studied Homer and lived in Rome during the reignof Tiberius, maintains that in old times people were not used to indulge in too much wine or in any other luxury, except in honour of the goods. Hence they named their carousals either thoinai or thaleiai or methai.

Thoinai, because they thought it as their duty to take wine for the Gods sake (thoine may be Θεοί and οίνος).
Thaleiai because they gathered and came together to grace the gods. This, namely, is the meaning of daita thaleian (bountiful feast). As for the term methe (drunkenness). Aristotle says that the verb methyo (get drunk) comes from the use of wine after sacrifice. (Athen.2.40C)

Hecabe offers to her son Hector a cup with honey-sweet wine to drink but first he may pour libation to ZEUS and the other immortals. "When a man, she says, is spent with toil wine greatly makes his strength to fortify". (Iliad 6.261)

Homer describes (Iliad 11.635) how Hecamede prepared the potion (cykeon).
In the cup of Nestor she mixed water with Pramnian wine and on this she grated cheese of goat's milk with a brazen grater, and sprinkled therover white barley meal.

In the island of Icaros is a rock which in the ancient times was called Pramnos. Beside it's a tall mountain from which comes this Pramian wine. It is neither sweet nor rich but dry, hard, and of extraordinary strenght. (Athen. 1.30c)

Homer praises the wine that allows considerable admixture of water and old wine allows more mixing because it becomes more heating with age. (Athen. 1.26)

"While thou praisest the wine that is old, thou shalt also praise the flowers of songs that are new". (Pind. Olymp. 9.48)

Nestor said to Diomedes, the tamer of horses: "Full are your huts of wine that the ships of the Achaeans bring you each day from Thrace over the wide sea". (Iliade 9.71)

For Agamemnon and Menelaus, the son of Iason had given wine to be brought them, even a thousand measures. (Iliad 7.467)

Thrace was praised for its fine wine. (Athen. 1.31b)
As a matter of fact old wine is better not only in taste but also for the health. (Athen. 1.26a)

The Lesbians call the sweet wine of their country prodromos or protropus. (Athen. 130b)

It was said that the Corinthian wine was hard. (Athen. 130f)

Archilochus compares Naxian wine to nectar. (Ath. 1.30f)

One of the ancient names of the isle Aegina was Oenopia. (Pindar Isthmian 8.21)

The sweet wine is called Pollian among the Greeks Sicilian. (Athen. 1.31b)

Among the Troezenians there was a vine called Anthedonias and Hypereias from a certain Athus and Hyperus; just as there is an Althephias from Althephius a descendant of Alpheius. (Athen. 1.31c)

The wines of Cos and Rhodos are treated with sea water. They believed that the wine is naturally well adapted for drinking-bouts and not unsuitable for daily use. To fifty pitchers of must is added one of sea water; then the wine becomes anthosmias or bouquet. Anthosmias (bouquet) is made stronger with the fruit of new vines rather than old. (Athen.1.32a-e)

In Samos where is mentioned the cult of DIONYSUS, the fertile soil and the mild climate favour the cultivation of the best quality of wine, producing the famous Anthosmias wine (bouquet). Nowadays, the excellent wine of Samos is renound.

Theophrastus says that in Thasos the wine served in the town hall has a wonderful flavour, because it is specially reasoned. They place in the wine jar dough made from spelt, first mixing it with honey, so that the wine gets its fragrance from itself, but its sweetness from the dough. If you mix hard and fragrant wine with smooth and dourless wine as, for instance Heracleote and Erytraen, the one supplies smoothness and the other fragrance. (Ath. 1.32a-b)

According to Athenaeus among wines one kind is white another is sweet another is yellow another of mild bouquet and one is the smoky wine. The smoky vine gives dark wine; the best smoky wine is made in Beneventum, a town in Italy. (1.31a 32e 4131f)
As for the white it is by nature thinnest, diuretic and heating; yellow wine is dry and better adapted to digesting foods. Dark wine if not inclined to be sweet, is very nutritious. The Myndian and the Halicarnassian wines which are more carefully treated with sea water do not cause headache and they assist digestion. (Athen. 1.32.33)

The pleasant is the Chian wine especially the variety known as Ariusian. (Athen. 1.32f Plutar. Mor 1099B)

Alcman relates that wine which knows no heat, redolent of its bouquet, coming from the Five Hills a place about a mile distant from Sparta; In Laconia near Pitani one could find the famous wine Denthis or Oenoun or Carystus or Onogli or Stathiti. (Athen. 1.31c)

Amphias was a poor wine. (lexic. Souda Athen.1.31e)

Karivaritis was the wine of a very bad quality and karivaria was the drunkenness. (lexic. Souda)

Trima was a liqueur made of spices. (Athen. 1.31e)

Athops is the name of the dark and heating wine. (Hesych.)

The Phlius wine was also renowned. (Athen. 1.27d)

Melititis or melittios was a Leucadian wine with some honey liqueur just drinkable. (Athen. 1.29a lexic.W. Pape)

The Psithian wine was sweet and without water. (Athen. 1.28f)

The Teans asserted that at fixed times in their city was a foutain of wine which flowed of its own accord from the earth. (Diodor. Sic. 3.66)

The Cretan wines were famous in the days of Minos.

In Egypt they have been formed jars which contained wine from Greece.

The Mendaean wine from Mende (a town on Chalcidic peminsula) is white. Phaenias of Eresus says that the Mendaeaus sprinkle the grapes on the vines with an aperient so that the wine becomes soft. (Athen. 1.29F)

The Anthesteria festival was celebrated by the Ionian cities during the month Anthesterion (February - March). The first day is named Pithoigia (Jar - opening) and it was the maturity time of the wine. The jars had been sealed from the vintage and the wine had been subsisted the fermentation. They offered the first fruit in the sanctuary which was opened only at sunset. (Ploutar. Moralia 655E)
At the sanctuasy of DIONYSUS en Limnais, the Athenians used to mix the wine with the water for the God, who is hounored with the first libations before tasting the wine, which then should be inhurt and wholesame for them and then they began to drink.

The inhabitans of the island Andros, believed that during the DIONYSUS festival, which they celebrate every two years, they find a quantity of wine in the sanctuasy of the God. (Pausan. 6.26.2)

Stahpylus, historian from Naucratis declared that Melampus was the first to invent the mixing of wine with water. (Athen. 2.45c)

Stafili, grape, the fruit of the vine. Votris, cluster of grapes. (Il. 18.561.Od.5.69)