Serbian Wines

[Jakob]

Hi to all you great wine lovers. I'm new to this site and what a great and interesting site it is. Thumbs up for this one!

I wanted to write something interesting for my first post so I came up with this what seems to be a different unknown but for me a newly discovered wine producing country.

When have you last heard the country of Serbia mentioned?

well surfing for wine sites on the internet I happened to come across a site dedicated to Serbian Wines importers Ivanovic & McHardy Ltd. "Serbian Wines" I thought hmmm? Always on the look out for a new discovery I said let me explore. Cutting a longer story shorter I surfed a few interesting info pages (meaning the history bit) and straight to the our Wines page. Here amongst the well established grapes such as your classical Chardonnays, Cabernet Sauvignon etc I came across unusual names such as red Vranac, Prokupac, Banatski Riesling, smederevka.

There are many large producers here and well worth a bio read.

I have ordered online a range of wines under the title Terra Lazarica from a producer called Rubin. These wines Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon are absolutely delicious and mouth watering, dare I say amongst the best cabernet sauvignons and chardonnays in the price catogory in sold in general stores (giving the Australian, French, US producers a run for their money) in the UK. For me certain Serbian wines are well worth the price. It seems amazing that such a large producer like Rubin and Navip can produce such a great quality range of wines. Navip under the name of Yugoslavia sold just over 2 million liters to the UK per year. Yes I do remember the Yugo Rieslings at Tesco's.

The Navip's Muscat Otonel is definitely as is described - Thirst quenching and mouth watering. To my humble opinion Serbian wines seem to be far ahead of Bulgarian wines (who are looking at the Balkan map Serbian neighbours) when it comes to quality. Great Serbian reds such as Tsar Lazar, Jovic vranac and oddly named Bears blood are tops
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Looking at their site which unfortunately seems not to be completed one can see that a few well known names are involved.

Anyway if anyone here should sample Serbian wines I would love to hear what you think of them as I have as you might notice becaome a great fan.

I do hope that my first post was of some interest.

Regards