In a nutshell : Exportable international varietals. Main grapes : Cabernet Sauvignon, Mavrud, Melnik (red); Rkatsiteli, Aligoté, Chardonnay (white). With much less promising raw...

Last time I did any comprehensive tasting of Bulgarian wines was on an eye-opening short visit there in 2003 (see my report ). I tasted one or two good wines, generally...

As someone who, like many British wine lovers, can remember a time when Bulgaria produced oceans of incredibly cheap, ripe, attractive Cabernet Sauvignon, I have a keen interest in the fortunes of...

Björn Isfoss, Sweden: Jancis, many thanks for your useful and enjoyable writings in various media. We are working on a vineyard-winery investment scenario in BULGARIA. Having tasted 26...

Two previous jr.com stories in one: Linda Domas and associate(s), responsible for the Tunisian Carignan I wrote about recently, has just been hired to make the wines at Stork Nest, the big...

Purple page subscribers should see also Bulgaria - the inside story . My first wine trip to Bulgaria was both fascinating and frustrating. I could see that my fellow travellers, young drinks...

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...