"WINE - Bulgarian Encyclopedia" in a new, expanded edition!

The first encyclopedia of wine in our country. The guide examines in detail the production of wine from antiquity to the present day and presents wine as a cultural phenomenon. It especially emphasizes wine production in Bulgaria by presenting the wine regions and wineries with their best wines.

Additionally, information for connoisseurs is included - about the aroma, language, aftertaste and color of the wine, as well as a ranking of the best wines in Bulgaria and around the world.

The first edition of this book appeared in 2004 with the ambition to fill a long-standing need on the book market - the need for a guide that would introduce the wine-loving Bulgarian reader to the world of wine with its long, complex and rich in cultural layers history, its technologies, styles, tastes and rituals. Since then, many things have changed in the wine industry in our country. New wineries and hundreds (rather thousands) of new wines have appeared. Established producers in the past have gone bankrupt. The new wineries have planted their own vineyards and strictly control the quality of the grapes, and therefore of the wine.

Yasen Borislavov

Our esteemed colleague Yasen Borislavov left us before long and left behind a tangible gap in Bulgarian journalism and in particular in wine journalism. Each of the four previous editions of his “Bulgarian Encyclopedia of Wine” has been exhausted to the end, because the book is not only a serious and comprehensive work, but also a fascinating and informative read for all those intrigued by the topic of “Wine”. “Its modest desire is to be the Bulgarian piece in the picture of the huge and dynamically changing world wine puzzle” – writes the author, who
was distinguished by his proverbial modesty.
For this fifth edition, it was necessary to update the last chapter dedicated to Bulgarian wine, and this honor fell to me
as the editor-in-chief of “DiVino” – the media outlet that closely follows our native wine industry and that has been forming the annual TOP 50 ranking of the best Bulgarian wines for 14 years. The author of the encyclopedia was part of DiVino’s tasting team and his work on Bulgarian wine was largely based on the ranking.
I sincerely hope that I have remained true to the spirit and tone of Yasen, with whom we shared deep respect for the efforts of Bulgarian winemakers to bring our native wine to the world stage.

Vesela Marinova