Commandaria Uncorked:The King of Wine

摘要

The sweet dessert wine Commandaria can be backdated 6500 years although, back then, it was only known as 'Sweet Wine of Cyprus'. According to the Cyprus Wine Museum, this is the precursor wine to modern-day Commandaria. As far as current records show, it is one of the oldest wines in the Mediterranean. Euripides, the classical tragedian of ancient Athens, dubbed the wine as 'Cypriot Nama', which is synonymous with the 'manna or the nectar of the gods.