Written by Luggage on July 16, 2001
- Wine words to know
Suho = dry
Polsuho = Semi-dry
Polsladko = Semi-sweet
Sladko = Sweet
Vrhunsko vino = Premium wine (gold label)
Kakovostno vino = Quality wine (silver label)
Namizno vino = Table wine, the...
Written by Luggage on July 16, 2001
- It was late November, the burja was blowing at over 60 mph, and my friend K. and I, riding in a small Renault down the hilly, winding highways of western Slovenia, definitely felt its presence...
Written by Luggage on July 16, 2001
- If mom-and-pop wineries such as Cjanova Kmetija represent the cottage end of the scale in Goriska Brda, Movia, in Ceglo village, is a manor house – literally. From the moment you pull up to the...
Written by Luggage on July 16, 2001
- Viticulture in the Slovene lands goes back some 2400 years, to Celtic tribes predating the Roman Empire. But it doesn’t mean present-day winemakers hew to ancient methods: the Phylloxera plague of the late 19th century,...
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