(Text and photos Cliff Rames © 2012) This is Part II of our two-part report. For Part I, please click here. The VIP Guests Each year the organizers of the Zagreb Wine Gourmet Weekend (ZWGW) make an ambitious attempt to draw international visitors and VIP guests to the festival. Without doubt this is a wise […] Continue reading
By Cliff Rames © 2012 Once there was a Big Bang. The resulting release of energy and matter went hurling out into the dark undeveloped universe, where it swirled around aimlessly for a while. Eventually these building blocks organized themselves into neat systems where Life could take root. Order was created. Man was born. Grapevines […] Continue reading
As it should, the Croatian wine story continues to unfold in wonderful and exciting ways. Indisputably the best way to experience the story is to visit Croatia and taste the wines in their native setting. Only then, as you inhale and taste their ambient aromas and flavors, do you fully understand their pedigree of […] Continue reading
It was a full house. On Monday, February 13, 2012 over 400 wine lovers and advocates, sommeliers, wine buyers, restaurateurs and chefs gathered in the elegant Regent Esplanade hotel in Croatia’s capital Zagreb for the first-ever “en primeur” degustation of malvasia istriana (malvazija istarska) wines from the 2011 vintage. The malvasia en primeur tasting […] Continue reading
As part of an ongoing series of events leading up to the 19th annual Vinistra wine expo in May 2012, the Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Istria (Vinistra) announced the first-ever “en primeur” degustation of young Malvasia Istriana (Malvazija istarska) wines from the 2011 vintage. The en primeur event will be held on […] Continue reading
