Wine festival kicks off on Kopaonik

KOPAONIK - Winterfest, a three-day wine, gastronomy and viticulture conference with an emphasis on wine tourism, kicked off on the Kopaonik mountain in southern Serbia on Thursday.

Speakers at the wine festival's conferences, which brought together tourism organizations, agencies, hoteliers and wine makers from around the former Yugoslavia region, will include eminent professors from agriculture, food and tourism faculties in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb and Podgorica, Winterfest director Natasa Budisavljevic told Tanjug.

A total of six panel discussions, featuring over 40 speakers, will be held at Winterfest, which closes on Sunday, March 30.

The main themes are branding the wine regions (if they want to be registered in the European and global wine map), the Internet and social networks in the service of winemakers (where discussions will focus on advantages of Internet advertising over conventional forms of advertising), and wine tourism, through presenting a project to develop the wine regions of Fruska Gora in northern Serbia and the Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia, which is funded by the EU and others.

Wine lovers will have the opportunity to taste wines from 32 wineries from across the former Yugoslavia region.

Photo Tanjug, J. Pap (Archive, illustration)