Historical Sources

Aromatized wine in antiquity

– Ancient Artworks and Crocus Genetics Both Support Saffron’s Origin in Early Greece – Front. Plant Sci., 25 February 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.834416

– J. Robinson (ed) “The Oxford Companion to Wine” Third Edition pp. 326–329
Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0-19-860990-6

– Dioscurides, De materia medica, V, 54 & V,72
– Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum, VI,6,5
– Stavroula Kourakou- Dragona, Vine and Wine in the Ancient Greek World, 2009, 223-234
– A. Sarpaki, Re-visiting the Visibility of the Grape, Grape Products, By products and some Insights of its Organization from the Prehistoric Aegean, as Guided by New Evidence from Monastiraki, Crete
– Apicius -De Re Coquinari (Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome)– see conditum paradoxum
– Theophrastus, Odor. 7.32
– Valamoti Soultana- Maria, Archaeobotanical research on nutrition in prehistoric Greece, Thessaloniki, 2009, 97-100
– G. A. Pikoulas- Resinated wine & resinated drinks in Prehistoric Aegean: data, ypotheses, and intepretations, 25,26,28,30,31,36
-Aristotle University Thessaloniki- Thesis of Evangelia Pouliou (Chemist)- Utilization of Bitter Ingredients derived from dried stigmas of Crocus sativus L. in the Food and Beverage Industry, p.33
-Stravroula D. Kioutsouki, Production of pharmaceutical wines with the presence of the aromatic plants, terebinth and savoury during fermentation, Athens 2019

Medicinal wines in antiquity

– H. Johnson Vintage: The Story of Wine, pp. 35–46 Simon and Schuster 1989 ISBN 0- 671-68702-6
– R.A. Halberstein, 2005, Medicinal Plants: Historical and Cross-Cultural Usage Patterns. Annals of Epidemiology, 15, 686-699
– Dioscorides, Materia Medica 5 (7-11)
– Hippocrates in “On Regimen” A’, B’, C’, D’
– Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers- Jacques Jouanna, p. 173-174

Aromatized wine in Byzantium

– Andrew Dalby, Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece – 2000, 239, 325
– Zohary & Hopf, Domestication of plants in the Old World. The origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe and the Nile Valley, 1993, 189-190
-Διοσκουρίδης, Περί Ύλης Ιατρικής, V, 54 και V, 72
-Θεόφραστος, Περί φυτών ιστορίας, VI, 6, 5

Medicinal properties of Saffron

Legislation on aromatized wine

EOK REGULATION Νο 1601/91 of the Committee of 10 th June 1991 for the enactment
of the general rules in regards to the definition, the designation kai the presentation
of aromatized wines, aromatized drinks based on wine and the aromatized cocktails
made of vitivinicultural products. (EE L 149 of 14.6.1991, p. 1)