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Culture of Wine in Slovenia
(This house serves us, but it is not ours. They 1993 created a national VTC project. They
who come after us, will also leave it. So, my established 20 wine routes, with tourist
friend, ask yourself – whose is this house?) The farms along them. Establishing wine
Hlebec farm in Kog, 2006. Photo: Staša Cafuta. routes and reviving tourist farms demands
a great deal of effort and resources. We
expect, however, that this will help
Slovenia to preserve its winegrowing
areas, particularly in hilly, backward
localities and to bring life back to the
villages there. This is why wine routes, in
addition to allowing consumers to meet
with winemakers and their produce, also
have a significant economic importance.
On the territory of the present-day
Slovenia, the grapevine was at the end
of the Middle Ages also widespread in
Gorenjska, Koroška and the Savinja
Valley. With the development of trade,
the improvement of transport routes and
communications, vineyards withdrew to
pronouncedly winegrowing localities.
In the late 19th century, just before the
vine-louse epidemic which destroyed
all the vineyards, there were 51,000
hectares or vineyards, while today there
are only 20,000 ha, although 35,500 ha
are registered as such.
In the EU only those farms that pro-
duce high quality grapes on at least five
hectares of vineyards will be able to
survive. And what is the real structure
of our winegrowing farms? I take this
information from the Master’s disserta-
tion by Doroteja Ozimič36: 32 percent of
farms in Slovenia have a vineyard, which
points to how widespread viticulture
traditionally is. Thirty-eight percent of
these farms have less than 0.1 ha; most,
i.e. 52 %, have from 0.11 to 0.5 ha of
vineyards. Only approximately 5,000
farms have vineyards measuring over
36 Ozimič, Doroteja, Vinogradništvo in vinske ceste kot element razvoja podeželja na primeru podpohorske
vinske turistične ceste (Viticulture and wine routes as an element of rural development with the example
of the Below Pohorje wine route). Master’s dissertation. University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty,
Department of Agronomy, Ljubljana 2000, p. 37.
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(This house serves us, but it is not ours. They 1993 created a national VTC project. They
who come after us, will also leave it. So, my established 20 wine routes, with tourist
friend, ask yourself – whose is this house?) The farms along them. Establishing wine
Hlebec farm in Kog, 2006. Photo: Staša Cafuta. routes and reviving tourist farms demands
a great deal of effort and resources. We
expect, however, that this will help
Slovenia to preserve its winegrowing
areas, particularly in hilly, backward
localities and to bring life back to the
villages there. This is why wine routes, in
addition to allowing consumers to meet
with winemakers and their produce, also
have a significant economic importance.
On the territory of the present-day
Slovenia, the grapevine was at the end
of the Middle Ages also widespread in
Gorenjska, Koroška and the Savinja
Valley. With the development of trade,
the improvement of transport routes and
communications, vineyards withdrew to
pronouncedly winegrowing localities.
In the late 19th century, just before the
vine-louse epidemic which destroyed
all the vineyards, there were 51,000
hectares or vineyards, while today there
are only 20,000 ha, although 35,500 ha
are registered as such.
In the EU only those farms that pro-
duce high quality grapes on at least five
hectares of vineyards will be able to
survive. And what is the real structure
of our winegrowing farms? I take this
information from the Master’s disserta-
tion by Doroteja Ozimič36: 32 percent of
farms in Slovenia have a vineyard, which
points to how widespread viticulture
traditionally is. Thirty-eight percent of
these farms have less than 0.1 ha; most,
i.e. 52 %, have from 0.11 to 0.5 ha of
vineyards. Only approximately 5,000
farms have vineyards measuring over
36 Ozimič, Doroteja, Vinogradništvo in vinske ceste kot element razvoja podeželja na primeru podpohorske
vinske turistične ceste (Viticulture and wine routes as an element of rural development with the example
of the Below Pohorje wine route). Master’s dissertation. University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty,
Department of Agronomy, Ljubljana 2000, p. 37.
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