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We don't know much about dry wines. The best that they brought home were wines from Romania. Somehow it does not work from Bulgaria. I always consult with sellers, but not exactly what I wanted. Advise what to buy? The wine should not be sour, not cheap, with a rich aroma. I really like the wines from the royal cellar in Balchik. but they are not dry. The last time they took it in a company store in Pomorie, for 10 lev, but not very much either.
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They have a wine region (I don't remember the name, look it up on Google) on the border with Greece. The wines of this region are considered the best.
As for me, Bulgarian white wines are not bad, but strained with red ones.
As for me, Bulgarian white wines are not bad, but strained with red ones.
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answered 12 years ago
In 2000, Bulgaria adopted a classification of wines based on the territorial principle and in line with EU regulations. The Bulgarian wine classification has four categories.
The first is table wines.
The second is the wines of local brands. Specifically Bulgarian brands include wines from grape varieties Mavrud, Dimyat, Kadarka (Gamza), Melnik.
The third is wines made from grape varieties of a certain quality grown in certain regions (DGO). This includes high-quality wines Riesling, Muscat Ottonel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, etc. The label must indicate the area of origin.
The fourth - the highest category: the name controlled by origin, "controll" - is similar to the French category AOC. Wines are made from grapes grown in specially accredited areas with specific agrometeorological conditions that provide grapes - and then wine - with a special taste and aroma (for example, the areas around the cities of Straldzha, Brezovo, Karlovo and Sungurlare for Cherven misket (red muscat), Plovdiv and Chirpan for the Mavrud variety, Melnik for the Shiroka Melnishka vine variety, etc.) This category is assigned by an expert commission.
The first is table wines.
The second is the wines of local brands. Specifically Bulgarian brands include wines from grape varieties Mavrud, Dimyat, Kadarka (Gamza), Melnik.
The third is wines made from grape varieties of a certain quality grown in certain regions (DGO). This includes high-quality wines Riesling, Muscat Ottonel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, etc. The label must indicate the area of origin.
The fourth - the highest category: the name controlled by origin, "controll" - is similar to the French category AOC. Wines are made from grapes grown in specially accredited areas with specific agrometeorological conditions that provide grapes - and then wine - with a special taste and aroma (for example, the areas around the cities of Straldzha, Brezovo, Karlovo and Sungurlare for Cherven misket (red muscat), Plovdiv and Chirpan for the Mavrud variety, Melnik for the Shiroka Melnishka vine variety, etc.) This category is assigned by an expert commission.
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answered 12 years ago
I remember from childhood that Bulgarian wine was only suitable for mulled wine, and there - the worse, the better! ;)
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answered 12 years ago
Thank you all, I'll write everything down and we'll try. And then the exclusive from Balchik is already a little tired, and expensive (20-25 euros a year ago). In the same place in Balchka, I don’t remember exactly where, but it seems also on the territory of the Botanical Garden, there is a shop where the winemaker sells wines of his own production, 15 lev for a bottle of 0.75, they say it’s dry, but others said that it’s bred. And we also liked the figs.
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answered 12 years ago
In Balchik, not exclusive, but pure fake - skillful hands added flavors (what our tourists love) - and everything is ready for super products. I like the wines produced by Targovishte (such twisted bottles) - especially fragrant Traminer, though white but incomparable! Melnik - yes, very good wines, when we were there - we drank wine instead of breakfast, lunch and dinner! But this wine has a tart taste, a good snack for it will be lukanka, sujuk, siren. Truly Bulgarian varieties, apart from Shiroka melnishka vine (Melnik), are Dimyat (near Evksinograd) - white wine with vanilla flavor. Mavrud is valued from Asenovgrad, it is also a tart red wine, suitable for winter fatty meat dishes such as kapama, kavarma. Just because wines are dry doesn't mean they aren't sweet. In Bulgaria, there are enough sunny days for the winegrower to gain enough sugar content. Rakia is usually brought from Pomorie - Pomorisk Grozdova is one of the best
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answered 12 years ago
Last year we brought the Fig wine from Bulgaria, which is made according to the technology of snow wine. The Bulgarians began to produce wine according to the recipe of the Portuguese port wine - very tasty. Very decent wine - berry - blackberry and raspberry. But you have to give credit to their brandy. Pliska is 30 years old. And very, very much - brandy Victoria - 30 years old.
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answered 12 years ago
Thank you. I'll take a look at the wine. And we take brandy every year successfully: Pliska, Preslav, last year we took Black Sea Gold in Pomorie, we liked it. And we always take Cahors Blagovest from Pomorie for Easter.
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answered 12 years ago
Were last year. The husband "tortured" the guide about the wines, Nona wrote him the names. White: Khan Krum Traminer (Targovishte), Chardonnay (Pomorie), Keratsuda, Chateau Kafnobat. Reds: Melnik, Mavrud, Gamza (Sukhindol). And rakia "Slivovitsa" went with a bang at her husband's work.
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answered 12 years ago
there are about a million different wines sold in the world * different vintages. You can't remember everything. Therefore, there are quality ratings, objective. There is a Bulgarian site with ratings. In short, buy with the highest rating and everything will be OK
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answered 12 years ago
Well, I don’t know - Melnik and Mavrud have a very high rating, but, alas, we couldn’t even “take a sip”. We didn't like it! ...
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answered 12 years ago
Afnbybz - judging by your post above - you like berry-figs and other sweet-aromatic liqueurs that cannot be called wines. Any wine expert will tell you that this is fake. You can grow grapes on a certain slope, you can ferment the must without bunches, squeeze out only the juice, and achieve a light aroma of berries and a pleasant aftertaste, but it will not be so pronounced. I think you will not understand the taste of a real dry wine, but this does not mean that the wines are "tasteless" or bad. If international experts assigned their marks at competitions, this means that wine for true connoisseurs is the highest quality.
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answered 12 years ago
For you to understand - dry wine is prepared only from grape juice, while Cahors, tinctures - from what is left after squeezing the juice, with the addition of sugar, aromatic herbs or - in most cases - flavorings. Yes, it's nice to have a sweet sip, but after 1 glass your head will ache. Cahors and dessert wines, like port wine, have their own tradition of drinking. Bulgaria is not famous for its cahors and port wines, even when communed in church with ordinary dry wine. Each type of wine has its own taste and aroma with a certain type of snack (myry, meat delicacies - lukanka, Elena fillet, Elena but, pastrma). The wines of ordinary people who understand this are also exceptionally good. My husband's homeland is the Rousse region, this is the North of Bulgaria. They make amazing "northern" wines. After drinking a fair amount of wine - the head never hurts. And to think that a glass of wine contains fermented natural grape juice, not thermally processed, containing a lot of useful properties. We joke in the family that when you get sick, it means that homemade wine is over.. We also liked the wine house that we bought on the way from Melnik to Rozhen. It was of course a blend (a mixture of varieties)
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answered 12 years ago
Dear Natalia from Kyiv - I am not a fan of wine at all. I respect good cognacs and Bulgarian brandy. And wine - like any drink - is an amateur. As they say, who loves sauerkraut, and who loves young girls. And someone else is a gourmet. And throwing the words "blend", "northern" wines - probably not right. People share what they brought from their trips as tourists. And comparing the wines that I drink local is not entirely out of place.
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answered 12 years ago
I also like dessert wines more, here from Balchik for me - the most "it". But I know that Bulgarians drink mostly dry wines. There were 2 times for tasting: in Varna and in Medovo. I listened attentively about all these aromas of fruits, vanilla, etc. And I didn’t feel anything, except for sourness. Maybe not mine ... But I really want to join. Let's try again with your help. Thank you.
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answered 12 years ago