Relic Wine Hunters

An adventurous Sicilian winemaker goes back to the ancient vineyard in the Nebrodi Mountains where he discovered a rare native grape variety on the verge of extinction. The story continues on Pantelleria, the black pearl of the Mediterranean, where experimental vineyards are producing indigenous strains of the Zibibbo grape, one of the Mediterranean’s oldest native varieties.

The Malagousia wine was once used by Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine. This episode tells the story of this ancient variety’s comeback, after relic wine hunters discovered it in northern Greece and then successfully replanted in order to become one of Greece’s most popular white wines today.

The ancient wines of Languedoc are struggling to change the reputation of the region as a producer of low-quality wine for the masses. The revolutions and upheavals that have scarred its past have not wholly destroyed the seeds of a great wine future. This beautiful episode of Relic Wine Hunters takes the viewers on location in the South of France to show how a new generation of French wine lovers are working to revive the region’s rarest indigenous varieties for an ever more sophisticated expanding international wine market.