Wine

Bulgarians Celebrate Trifon Zarezan – Day of the Vine Growers and Winemakers

Today Bulgarians celebrate Trifon Zarezan in the old style - the feast of the vine-growers and wine, also known as Zarezanovden, Trifun Chipia and Trifun Zarezoy.

The day of the Holy Martyr Tryphon from ancient times is associated with the first pruning of the vineyards.

The wine festival has ancient roots and is rich in rituals - says ethnographer Nedka Dimitrova:

Average Slovenian drinks 35 litres of wine a year

Ljubljana – An average Slovenian drank 35 litres of wine in the marketing year 2020-2021, that is nearly three litres a month. The country’s wine consumption in this period totalled 764,000 hectolitres, and the self-sufficiency rate stood at 95%, according to data released by the Statistics Office.

Around 80 tons of bootleg wine seized at vinegar factory

Security forces have seized a total of 77 tons of bootleg wine at a vinegar factory in the Şarköy district of the northwestern province of Tekirdağ.

Teams from the local police force's Organized Crime and Smuggling Department figured that barrels with bootleg wine were being handled at a plant.

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