Delhi's date with Bulgarian wines
Delhi's date with Bulgarian wines
Feb 16, 2013 6
(IndiaToday) - If you're a history junkie, you'd know that Winston Churchill (in pic), who didn't quite endear himself to Indians but had great taste nonetheless, used to get 500 litres of wine every year from the Bulgarian historical town of Melnik, whose biggest celebrity has been the rebel slave Spartacus.
Bulgaria, as we learnt from the country's ambassador, Borislav Kostov, has a 6,000-year-old history of wine-making that goes back to the ancient Thracian civilisation. It's only after the fall of the old communist regime, though, that the country's wine industry became known outside its borders - Britain rediscovered its love for silky reds that the country was once famous for and the wines started notching up gold medals in international competitions.
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