The flavor of cedar in wine of Podravje
Discover the of Podravje wines revealing the of cedar flavor during the olphactive analysis (nose) and during the gustative analysis (mouth).
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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.
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