Top 100 pink wines of Podravje
Discover the top 100 best pink wines of Podravje as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the pink wines that are popular of Podravje and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Podravje
Podravje is Slovenia's largest and most productive wine region. It is located towards the eastern half of the country, and Centers around the key towns of Maribor and Ormoz. With roughly 11,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyard, Podravje has twice as much land under vine as its western neighbor, Posavje.
More than just a local center of activity, Maribor has Long been a wine center for this region of Europe as a whole.
Even today its vast Vinag wine Cellar is noteworthy, not only as one of Europe's largest traditional wine cellars (featuring 2. 5 kilometers / 1. 5 miles of tunnels) but also as a tourist attraction. Under the Hapsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian empire, the red wine from Ormoz and Maribor were a useful complement to the whites made in Austria itself.
Today, only a small proportion of the wine produced here is exported, much of it produced and sold in bulk.
Over the last ten million years, the Pannonian Sea Dried out completely, leaving the Pannonian Basin (also known as the Carpathian Basin) in its wake. The erosion that took place over this period of geomorphological activity created hundreds of small, rounded hills with mineral-rich, free-draining soils – ideal viticultural land. The non-carbonate rock on which these soils are based is unusual, and a significant Part of the local Terroir.
News from the vineyard of Podravje
At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bussières
Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bussières, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...
The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Charles Lamboley
Charles Lamboley, marketing and communication director from Vignerons des Terres Secrètes, explains the differences between the appellation Mâcon-Villages and Mâcon plus a geographical denomination. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (March 2020). The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of t ...
The Irancy appellation seen by Clotilde Davenne
Clotilde Davenne, from the eponymous estate, mentions the cherry as a main characteristic of the Irancy appellation. She tells us about the Pinot Noir variety which reveals, in its northern location of Bourgogne, lots of freshness and fruitiness that gives the appellation a very special place among the wines of the region. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (June 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https: ...