Bulgaria – the inside story
Friday 27 June 2003
It was hopelessly difficult to try to squeeze everything I wanted to say into my FT article. I quite understand that most purple pagers will think their wine drinking rather superior to most Bulgarian wines but some seriously interesting wines are now being made.
General observations
- Reds are generally better than whites.
- Bulgarians have at last got the hang of making fresh white wines but most grapes seem to be picked too early in the ripening process to have developed much fruit flavour (either because of excess vigour or excess caution).
- Autumn rains and cold can threaten the vintage...
Become a member to view this article and thousands more!
Premium
- 15,407 featured articles
- 274,950 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
Monthly
Annually
£99
Save 17.5% with annual membership
Professional
- 15,407 featured articles
- 274,950 wine reviews
- Maps from The World Atlas of Wine, 8th edition (RRP £50)
- The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th edition (RRP £50)
- Members’ forum
- 48-hour preview of all scheduled articles
- Commercial use of our wine reviews
£199
per year