Christina Kanataki, the Journalist

We have been watching her every day for years through her broadcasts on the Municipal Television of Thessaloniki. For some she is the friend who informs them about what is happening in the city, while for others the journalist who will break the news. For her company, she is the person with whom they will clink a glass of retsina - even if this, with the rush of everyday life, doesn't happen very often anymore...

PIOUS DESIRES.

Friends, carefree, nice conversations, fun... For Christina Kanataki, retsina has been associated with some of the nicest moments of her life - moments when time moves more slowly and which, unfortunately, have decreased considerably lately. "Retsina is directly connected in my memory with good company and relaxed moments, which no longer have a place in my daily life", confesses the journalist, "regardless of whether the wish of an intense day is to get together with loved ones in an alley in Kapani for retsina until morning. I'll never forget the carefree student years, when every weekend we'd say goodbye to some friend who was returning from his studies abroad - we'd get together and consume...gallons of retsina."

RETSINA, THE RETURN.

And she may have consumed enough of the golden-yellow drink herself, but she admits that retsina's reputation in the past was not the best. She notes, however, that this now seems to be changing: "It took a lot of effort to remove the 'retsinia' from the retsina. Partly its opportunistic approach to date, partly the lack of know-how, retsina did not give us the opportunity to get to know its multidimensional character. I think in recent years it’s getting its revenge and the bottled version is helping it shine now."

"PAOK, RETSINA AND PEGGY ZINA".

In the last decades, Thessaloniki and retsina march together, side by side. And not only because the city produces quality retsina, but also because the people of Thessaloniki honor it at every opportunity. But what is the anthropo-geography of retsina for Christina Kanataki? Who are those who prefer it, and which are the places in Thessaloniki where you can find it?
"'PAOK, Retsina and Peggy Zina': the comment includes students, the working class, tycoons, residents of the center, suburbs, locals, residents, neighbors and other constituencies" says the well-known journalist with a smile. "In short, retsina is everywhere."
And because it is indeed everywhere, retsina, as a wine, has been associated with the Greek. “What role does it play in his daily life? In the moments of company and loneliness, of joy and sadness, of extroversion and introversion?" we ask Christina Kanataki. "I will answer enigmatically: why drink a glass of wine when we can have the whole bottle?" she responds…

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