Category Archives: Bulgaria

Succulent Sweet Wines for the Holidays: The Best of 2018

Posted on December 20, 2018 by don

What better time of the year to open a bottle of profusely perfumed, deeply flavored sweet wine than the Holidays?  We’ve tasted a lot of them this past year from Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Washington, and, most recently, the Atlantic Coast … Continue reading →

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Edoardo Miroglio: Vines, Wines, & Boutique Hotel in Bulgaria

Posted on August 13, 2018 by don

Italian textile manufacturer Edoardo Mirogolio has created from scratch one of Bulgaria’s most impressive, modern wineries.  In our soon to be published report on The Wines of Bulgaria we rate his wines among the best in Bulgaria, especially the Chardonnay, … Continue reading →

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Bulgaria’s Very Modern Castra Rubra Winery: Michel Rolland Travels East

Posted on June 28, 2018 by don

Bulgaria has created numerous new, state of the art wineries over the past two decades. None is more significant than Castra Rubra where globetrotting enologist Michel Rolland has played a lead role as consulting winemaker as well as in planning … Continue reading →

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Traditional Bulgarian Cuisine

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Ian Bakar

This article is excerpted from the IWR’s forthcoming report The New Wines of Bulgaria. We are indebted to  Silvena  Johan Lauta’s excellent book Romanian & Bulgarian Food and Cooking Arness Publishing LTD 2010 and Alexander Markoff’s Amazing Bulgarian Cuisine-Traditional Recipes … Continue reading →

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More Premium Wines from Bulgaria: Quality Meets Value Part II

Posted on January 3, 2018 by mike

  This is the second part of a two-part review of Bulgarian wines.   In our first article in mid-November,   we  focused on the premium wines of  Bulgariana, one of Bulgaria’s largest producers in the Thracian Valley.   Here we turn … Continue reading →

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Bulgariana: Attractive Premium Wines from Bulgaria

Posted on November 15, 2017 by mike

Although Bulgaria has been making wine for thousands of years,  the wines of Bulgaria are not widely known in the US—but they should be.  The post-Soviet era has given rise to a growing number of excellent wineries which are producing … Continue reading →

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More Value Wines from Bulgaria

Posted on August 25, 2016 by mike

Last year we had the opportunity to taste a selection of fine Bulgarian wines imported to the U.S. by Parallel 43 of Alexandria, VA. Impressed by the quality of the wines and their modest prices, we agreed to taste a … Continue reading →

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Value Wines from Bulgaria

Posted on August 18, 2015 by mike

We recently had the opportunity to taste some fine Bulgarian wines imported to the U.S. by Parallel 43 of Alexandria, VA.   Bulgarian wines are not widely available in the US, but we have been impressed by those we’ve tasted, including … Continue reading →

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