Greek wine is the liquid of the gods. But Homer and Hesiod never wrote of Greek gin... Which makes sense, seeing as how it wasn’t invented just yet, but it’s worthy of the most lyrical of praise. And there’s no better gin than the one produced in Kalamata, at the oldest distillery of Greece. It is to this very day owned by the Callicounis family, who founded the distillery back in 1840 and who have been bottling distinguished spirits for four generations ever since. This includes the triple-distilled Old Sport Gin. Besides juniper – the most-important ingredient of any gin –, this spirit gets its flavour from orange peel, coriander seeds, and the resin of mastic pistachio trees, the latter also known as the “Tears of Chios".