May have been Retsina; that was bad stuff; tasted like kerodene or pine resin.

Was it yellow collered? Maybe Kava....Kava, was good...a friend brought back a bottle from a cruse to Greece.

I was stationed at Iraklion, Crete from Jum 69 'til Jun 72. I watched others drink Ouzo and learn to walk on their get knees.......If you were on a Navy 'cruse ship' you may have put into port there.

Only time I was ashamed to be an American occured in Lion's Square in Iraklion. Family and I were sitting in sidewalk cafe and we could hear a loud mouthed American (fit the steriotype) Hawiaan shirt, camera around his neck, and shorts walking down the street talking about "those dumb foreigners." The Greeks had 3 different prices on their goods....1st, American and British rate for those stationed on the island, 2nd standard tourist rate...then 3rd was the German rate, usually double the American rate. The Greeks on Crete have long memories of the German WWII occupation.