Wine and Plovdiv mean autumn city time. After my top 5 Plovdiv venues last week, I get to see and to taste the cutting edge new wines using Bulgarian indigenous grapes. Watch my chat with with Boris below: Boris, from Vino Culture wine bar in Plovdiv, shares his passion for the new “punk wine” Bulgarian [...]
Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019 is my favourite city in Bulgaria. John, a long time friend from the UK, and also a regular Bansko visitor came to visit me. It was time to show-off the delights of what Plovdiv has to offer a fellow wine lover. Plovdiv is a two hour drive from Sofia [...]
So many people I meet in Bansko are here for a few days in the summer. Visiting just Bansko would be like visiting London and only seeing Buckingham Palace. There is so much more. Every year I receive emails asking for tips on an itinerary that will satisfy the family travelling to Bulgaria. I offer something [...]
DiVino taste exhibition is one thing I never miss. I have attended every single year since its start at the military club and now moved to bigger premises in the NDK, Sofia. Take a listen to the Bulgaria Now Podcast with Mitko Nikolov at last year’s DiVino event above. Expect to listen to another podcast [...]
Craft beer is in Bansko for yet another year in the shape of the Good Beer Show on 1st and 2nd August and 8th and 9th August (pre Bansko Jazz Festival meeting place). The beer show is hosted at Bansko Royal Towers, which is very close to the gondola lift — you can’t miss it. [...]
Bulgarian rose´ wine. Not always good, but these little known gems are a revelation and a testament to the focus on quality I’m seeing in the Bulgarian wine industry. Dimitar (“Mitko’) Nikolov, wine buyer, Decanter magazine judge and his wife, Donka (from apollowine.com) joins me on the terrace as we taste our way through the [...]
Dimitar (“Mitko”) Nikolov joins me yet again for a summer wine tasting of the very best white wines he knows. And he not only knows his wine but is internationally respected for his wine tasting expertise. Mitko is a wine judge for Decanter Magazine — and has been for the last five years. His wife, [...]
Calling all foodies. it’s time to come to Bansko. The Premier Luxury Mountain Resort between 31st October and 29th November 2013. This, the third year of the gastronomy festival, looks like the best ever. See the programme below And there’s more… The Premier Gastronomy Festival The lengths that the Premier Luxury Mountain Resort go to [...]