Mastic is distilled there, resulting in a liqueur only made on Chios. Pine-smelling resin hardens into small stones that are collected after falling from the tree and can be used as a culinary ...

In poetry, the gum mastic drops are known as the “Tears of Chios ... visitors can taste pure mastic liqueur or try a Greek coffee flavored with mastic syrup. Ioannis produces the syrup ...