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Getting to know wine
In the Brda, open days are on the last Sunday in May.
The introduction of open days led to permanently open farms, i.e. to tourist farms along wine
routes, to the formation of a long-term relationship between winemakers and their custom-
ers, and to the participation of customers in festivities and various tasks on farms.
Wine routes (VTC) and wine farms
As the character of wine and its quality is not affected only by the soil and climate, that is
its origin, but also by man through his choice of the method of the cultivation of grapes
and winemaking, another opportunity to learn about wine is to get to know the winemaker
in the environment that influences him and which is expressed in his wine. When we get
to know better the customs that have shaped an individual winemaker and when we can
experience his way of thinking and the world surrounding him, we will truly get to know
his wine. With regard to this, wine routes and tourist farms are of great help.
In European winegrowing countries there have been wine roads for quite a number of
years. They are united into the council of wine tourist roads (Le conseil Européen des
Routes du vin). The council is linked to the European inter-regional institute for tourism
and wine and they draw up guidelines and conditions that wine routes must fulfil if they
wish to join the European network. The organisation’s goals are to bring wine closer to the
consumer in the place of origin. The Slovene Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food in
Wine routes have many different signs. Zlati grič, 2006. Photo: Aleš Gačnik
151
In the Brda, open days are on the last Sunday in May.
The introduction of open days led to permanently open farms, i.e. to tourist farms along wine
routes, to the formation of a long-term relationship between winemakers and their custom-
ers, and to the participation of customers in festivities and various tasks on farms.
Wine routes (VTC) and wine farms
As the character of wine and its quality is not affected only by the soil and climate, that is
its origin, but also by man through his choice of the method of the cultivation of grapes
and winemaking, another opportunity to learn about wine is to get to know the winemaker
in the environment that influences him and which is expressed in his wine. When we get
to know better the customs that have shaped an individual winemaker and when we can
experience his way of thinking and the world surrounding him, we will truly get to know
his wine. With regard to this, wine routes and tourist farms are of great help.
In European winegrowing countries there have been wine roads for quite a number of
years. They are united into the council of wine tourist roads (Le conseil Européen des
Routes du vin). The council is linked to the European inter-regional institute for tourism
and wine and they draw up guidelines and conditions that wine routes must fulfil if they
wish to join the European network. The organisation’s goals are to bring wine closer to the
consumer in the place of origin. The Slovene Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food in
Wine routes have many different signs. Zlati grič, 2006. Photo: Aleš Gačnik
151
