Bulgaria at the crossroads
Friday 23 May 2025
• 5 min read
A third wave of winemakers is turning Bulgaria into a source of seriously interesting and delightful wines. Above, Petar Georgiev (left) and Radostin Milkov (right) of Georgiev/Milkov, who source small parcels of native varieties in the Thracian Lowlands (© Giorgiev/Milkov).
It seems rather odd to think of Bulgaria as an ‘undiscovered’ or ‘emerging’ wine country. After all, it has a millennia-long history of winemaking to (nearly) rival the Caucasus, and the southern region of Thrace may have been the birthplace of Dionysus – sure evidence of viticultural provenance!
For all its long-standing potential, Bulgaria has yet to impose itself on the...
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