The earliest reference to a named wine is from the lyrical poet Alkman (7th century BC), who praises Dénthis, a wine from the western foothills of Mount Taygetus in Messenia, as anthosmías (smelling of flowers). According to wine expert Jancis Robinson, Limnio was almost certainly the Lemnia grape described by Aristotle as a speciality of the island of Limnos, which was probably the same as the modern-day Lemnió varietal, a red wine with a bouquet of oregano and thyme. If so, this makes Lemnió the oldest known varietal still in cultivation.