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Limassol,
Cyprus (CNN) -- Cyprus is known for its sunshine, its ancient ruins and
its delicious halloumi cheese, but one thing that is less well known is
that it is also home to the oldest named wine in the world.
Commandaria
is a dessert wine with a flavor as rich as its history. It is
originally believed to have been given its name by crusading knights in
the 13th century, but to have first been made up to 5,000 years ago.
It
is produced in the fertile high-altitude slopes in the south-west of
the island that became known as "La Grande Commanderie" during the
Crusades. Around this time, the Knights of the Order of Saint John
renamed the local wine after their new protectorate.
Throughout the
following centuries, stories of the wine abound. According to legend,
King Richard the Lionheart of England was so taken with commandaria that
at his wedding he pronounced it "the wine of kings and the king of
wines." Equally struck by the intoxicating liquor was the French King
Philippe Augustus who is said to have declared it to be "the Apostle of
wines".
It is a special wine. In it you have all the elements of Cyprus
Antoniou Dimitris, senior oenologist at KEO
Over
time production continued to grow. By 1879 the British explorer Sir
Samuel White Baker recorded that Cyprus was annually exporting 155,000
"okes" (a Turkish measurement that translates roughly to 230,000 liters)
of commandaria to Austria alone.
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