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Getting to know wine
VTC 7: The Lower Dolenjska wine route
This route runs along the southern part of the Dolenjska hills, i.e. past vineyards with
vineyard cottages, scattered around the best vine growing localities, where the woods were
cleared for this purpose many centuries ago. Above the town of Novo mesto there is the
hill Trška gora and not far from it Hmeljnik Castle. The wine road leads through Šmarjeta,
Škocjan, Šmarješke Toplice and Trebeljno to Mirna peč with its new vine growing localities.
In the Suha Krajina, Žužemberk and Straža areas, Šmarnica was planted until recently,
Above Novo mesto there are excellent viticultural localities on the slopes of
Trška gora, 2006. Photos: Aleš Gačnik.
Trška gora, 2006.
Photos: Aleš Gačnik.
but is now being abandoned, quality white and red varieties
are being grown instead, which produce very good wines. The
sampling of these new varieties takes place in Žužemberk on the
municipal holiday. Some of the large winegrowing farms bottle
their produce. At the foot of Trška gora near Novo mesto there
is the nicely organised wine cellar Bajnof, named after a castle
which was demolished.
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VTC 7: The Lower Dolenjska wine route
This route runs along the southern part of the Dolenjska hills, i.e. past vineyards with
vineyard cottages, scattered around the best vine growing localities, where the woods were
cleared for this purpose many centuries ago. Above the town of Novo mesto there is the
hill Trška gora and not far from it Hmeljnik Castle. The wine road leads through Šmarjeta,
Škocjan, Šmarješke Toplice and Trebeljno to Mirna peč with its new vine growing localities.
In the Suha Krajina, Žužemberk and Straža areas, Šmarnica was planted until recently,
Above Novo mesto there are excellent viticultural localities on the slopes of
Trška gora, 2006. Photos: Aleš Gačnik.
Trška gora, 2006.
Photos: Aleš Gačnik.
but is now being abandoned, quality white and red varieties
are being grown instead, which produce very good wines. The
sampling of these new varieties takes place in Žužemberk on the
municipal holiday. Some of the large winegrowing farms bottle
their produce. At the foot of Trška gora near Novo mesto there
is the nicely organised wine cellar Bajnof, named after a castle
which was demolished.
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