The best wines are produced from the Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties, high quality, rich, and Bordeaux-like. Local grapes include: - Gamza -the most widespread sort produces earthy, light bodied red wine good for simple fare. - Mavrud- is a full bodied, spicy red that can age to more than 8 years - Melnik- grown in the southernmost part of the country makes hefty red wines that age very well - Pamid - rustic and hardly unforgettable but still good enough "commercial" for weekly drinking. As still unpopular as it is, Bulgaria is the second largest exporter of bottled wine in the world, second only to France and it has four times the area, planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, of California. It appears to be the fastest growing new-comer on the market. The annual average production of wine in Bulgaria ranges between 200-220 million litres depending on the crop. In the Bulgarian wine industry, traditional classic technologies are applied, as well as refined, and modern ones borrowed from the leading wine producing countries like France.
pearl777 Forum Posts (4,812)
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RE: this new photo rating thing is unfair !..they only voted me a 4
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