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How to pronounce retsina in English?

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Type of vino, wine

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A light retsina wine aids the digestion of all these culinary pleasures.
From the theepochtimes.com
In the town square, men gather beneath plane trees to sip retsina, a resin-flavored wine.
From the time.com
Will it be bargains all round, empty beaches and retsina on the house?
From the guardian.co.uk
Retsina, Mulled wine and Vermouth are modern examples of this practice.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Wines with additives, such as retsina are not allowed.
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Bay laurel, charming in modest concentrations, can boil over into impressions of resin, creosote and retsina.
From the sfgate.com
Perhaps most tellingly of all, no restaurant here, no matter how traditional, seems to serve retsina, the national wine.
From the guardian.co.uk
Sweet desserts such as galaktoboureko, and drinks such as ouzo, metaxa and a variety of wines including retsina.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In 1960s, retsina, a dry white wine with lumps of resin, was probably the most well-known Greek wine abroad.
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  • Greek wine flavored with resin
  • Retsina (Greek: u03A1u03B5u03C4u03C3u03AFu03BDu03B1) is a Greek white (or rosu00E9) resinated wine, which has been made for at least 2000 years. Its unique flavor is said to have originated from the practice of sealing wine vessels, particularly amphorae, with Aleppo Pine resin in ancient times. Before the invention of impermeable glass bottles, oxygen caused many wines to spoil within the year...
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  • A dry white wine made in Greece, mostly from the Savatiano grape, to which pine resin has been added.