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Wine and chocolate exhibition "Dolce Vita"
Wine and chocolate exhibition “Dolce Vita” was held on 22nd and 23rd January in my city – Niš, Serbia, organized by ProMedia Consulting. I had a chance to visit this exhibition on its second day (23rd). Although I am more focused on discovering liqueurs and spirits rather than wine, I have to say that this [...] -
Distilling the grape pomace brandy (komova rakia)
About a month ago I’ve written about a grape harvest and grape crushing. In the meantime wine was filtered out of crushed grapes and the whole mash (grape pomace) was left to ferment in order to be distilled into pomace brandy (komova rakia, or komovica). Well, today’s the day, it’s distilling time. grape pomace, raw [...] -
Grape harvest 2009
It was grape harvesting day at my grandfather’s vineyard today. Vineyard is not big, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. There were seven of us – mostly cousins – and we were picking grapes for about 4 hours. Although it gets painful after an hour or so, because vines are low [...]