Macedonia: pics from party@Stobi Winery

Natalija Kuzmanovska, head of sales & marketing, Château Kamnik, Skopje

Our visit to Macedonia ended with a fun buffet supper@the Stobi Winery where we met up again with representatives from all of the eight wineries we visited.

Wines of Macedonia: the real power brokers!

Steven Spurrier and Filip Blazeski (Ezimit Winery)

 L-R: Dane Jovanov (Stobi) Venera Gelebesheva Krstik (Skovin)

Dr Klime Beleski, Ilija Malinkovski (Château Kamnik)

 

Zoran 'the Great' Velkoski + Gorgi Petrusev (Wines of Macedonia)

Stephen Brook

Macedonia: some photos from Saturday (10th May 2014)

 Dalvina: part of the vineyards planted on 

very flat land making the Médoc look mountainous!

They have 340 ha of vineyards – incl 130 ha of wine grapes

Yesterday was our last day in Macedonia – the warmest and sunniest day of our stay. We visited three wineries: starting with Dalvina, then Ezimit Vino before ending at Stobi where after tasting the range of their wines we met up with representatives of all the wineries we had visited for a buffet supper. Overnight we had a very brief stay at the Aleksandar Palace Hotel in Skopje – getting up at 3.15am this morning to depart at 4am to get to Skopje Airport for a 5.50 to Zagreb. Ouch!  

Dalvina  

 

Table grapes – Victoria

eating grapes tend to be grown on a pergola system

 Channel for irrigation – drip feed irrigation is being installed

 Julia Harding MW catching the wild flowers

 

 The Dalvina Winery (above and below)

 Human ants!

Ezimit Winery

 Ezimit offices etc.

 The vineyards are full of flowers and life – no wonder 

we came across a wild tortoise out for a stroll!

Tractors for between the rows, hoeing by hand between the vines

Filip Blazeski, general manager 

Petar Milev: wine-maker

Stobi

Stobi Winery

Stobi tanks (above and below)

Stobi vineyards@Vilarov

Weed control a mix of cultivation and herbicides

 

Vineyards@Lepovo Hills (above and below)

 Group@Lepovo Hills

Dane Jovanov, winemaker

 Julia Harding MW