THE WINE ROAD OF BUJE REGION
Istria thinks of wine as an inexplicable surreal sacredness, need and love, culture
of living, food and beverage, prayer and curse. The Istrian man is culturally
devoted to vine-wheat naturally provides living, but wine is a myth.
This map will lead you along one of the wine roads of Istria, the one that winds
through its north-western part called the Buje region. If the road happens to bring
you here, you can be sure that you are heading in the right direction. This is where
the Austro-Hungarian courtiers had their wine brought from, and wine from these
very wine-growing hills found its place on the table of His Emperor's Highness Franz Joseph.
The secret of such a good wine is not difficult to understand: first of all this is
an area that faces exactly the south-west where the sun offers its benefits in abondance.
Towards the sea, gentle slopes of vineyards, both those of well-known producers
and those of small diligent farmers are scattered along the sunny slopes of the nearby
hills. Here, in the immediate vicinity of the world famous wine regions, the red and
grey soil meet giving these wines a special unexperienced richness.
From town to town, from village to village, from cellar to cellar this road
impeccably traces the golden wine. In the Buje region wine has brought to friendly
terms the ever lasting rivalry between the ancient experience of ancestors and the
modern achievements of their descendants. Istrian malvazija, muskat, white and
grey pinot, chardonnay, hrvatica, refosk, teran, borgonja, merlot, cabernet sauvignon,
are characteristic sorts of wines. The amazing golden-green, yellow, pink,
ruby-red are mysterious rainbow colours of intoxication.
There is something called the Momjanski muskat that people indulge in as in life
itself. And for the end, cream on the top-hrvatica, an autochtonous sort, a subtle
exciting rose. Should Fortuna be favourably inclined, you will be offered to taste the
bukaleta of wine, that original Istrian pitcher of welcome accompained by the age-old song
" The vine hus yielded two clusters of gražes "
Cheers !
Vintners and wine-growers of Buje region.
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