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Culture of Wine Drinking
A school for winegrowers on Kemenščak, 1906. The winegrowing areas of Haloze
Photo library of the Ptuj Regional Museum. are increasingly becoming
overgrown, which is greatly altering
the appearance of the landscape.
Breeding Scottish cattle has been
introduced as an alternative to
winegrowing in the less accessible
parts of Haloze. The Brodnjak farm
in Veliki Okič, 2006. Photo: Aleš
Gačnik.
There is ample data on surfaces and yields over the past 200 years, but a comparison is
rather complicated. The data refers to administration units that changed over time. Styria
did not include the Prekmurje region, but did include the present-day Bizeljsko-Sremič
area. Carniola thus at that time did not encompass Bizeljsko-Sremič, but did have the upper
Vipava region. The Littoral encompassed the Gorizia area, the Brda Hills, the Kras and some
localities beyond the present-day Slovene-Italian border.
The borders of the plots entered in the land register have also changed over time. We are
familiar with the Josephine land register and the later improved land register created at
the time of Franz I, and today we have aerial photographs. Vines were not always planted
together on a particular plot of land. In the Littoral in particular there was a custom, which
disappeared only after World War Two, of planting vines in rows along fields. Thus the
official Austrian statistics until 1895 included these fields among vineyards and only from
1896 onwards took into account plots planted solely with vines.
If I were to write a study of land planted with vines, I would have to make an effort to gather
much more data, but my intention here is merely to illustrate, using the tables below, only
the overall direction of development of winegrowing areas.
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A school for winegrowers on Kemenščak, 1906. The winegrowing areas of Haloze
Photo library of the Ptuj Regional Museum. are increasingly becoming
overgrown, which is greatly altering
the appearance of the landscape.
Breeding Scottish cattle has been
introduced as an alternative to
winegrowing in the less accessible
parts of Haloze. The Brodnjak farm
in Veliki Okič, 2006. Photo: Aleš
Gačnik.
There is ample data on surfaces and yields over the past 200 years, but a comparison is
rather complicated. The data refers to administration units that changed over time. Styria
did not include the Prekmurje region, but did include the present-day Bizeljsko-Sremič
area. Carniola thus at that time did not encompass Bizeljsko-Sremič, but did have the upper
Vipava region. The Littoral encompassed the Gorizia area, the Brda Hills, the Kras and some
localities beyond the present-day Slovene-Italian border.
The borders of the plots entered in the land register have also changed over time. We are
familiar with the Josephine land register and the later improved land register created at
the time of Franz I, and today we have aerial photographs. Vines were not always planted
together on a particular plot of land. In the Littoral in particular there was a custom, which
disappeared only after World War Two, of planting vines in rows along fields. Thus the
official Austrian statistics until 1895 included these fields among vineyards and only from
1896 onwards took into account plots planted solely with vines.
If I were to write a study of land planted with vines, I would have to make an effort to gather
much more data, but my intention here is merely to illustrate, using the tables below, only
the overall direction of development of winegrowing areas.
59
