Wine, Olive and Heritage Festival in Jelsa on Island Hvar, will pe opened with the event named Through four seasons, in our vineyards on Hvar, where we will discover the true story about the Mediterranean Diet.
A life cycle of the vineyards on Hvar we will discover with Ivana Krstulović Carić, dipl.ing.agr., leader of the project on sustainable tourism and agriculture of the Sustainable Island , Ivana is also a president of Hvar Winemakers Association, consultant in food and agriculture sector, sales and marketing manager of Caric winery and licenced tourist guide.
The event is created by the Association Sustainable Island in co-operation with Catering High School, Hvar Winemakers Association, Association Trim & Women’s Cooperative Faria and Tourist Board of Jelsa.
Galina is the chairwoman of Bulgarian Wine Export Association (BWEA) and work hard to promote Bulgarian wines abroad. Galina is the founder and managing director of the Balkans International Wine Competition and Festival – very successful event, aiming to promote Balkan wines, that will take place next month (5-9 June 2019) in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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It celebrates the millennial wine-making tradition of the Balkan Peninsula as expressed in its modern Balkan wines – daily savored and loved by locals and more and more preferred by the wine lovers worldwide.
Galina Niforouhas an engineer degree in Wine and Spirits Technology from the University of Food Technology, Plovdiv and she has specialized in Wine Marketing & Management MBA at Bordeaux International Wine Institute – INSEEC, Bordeaux, France.
During the 20 years in the wine industry in Bulgaria and abroad she has established herself as a specialist who successfully develops business strategies and creates brands of international significance. She consults wine producers and writes for different wine editions.
Galina is the chairwoman of Bulgarian Wine Export Association (BWEA) and work hard to promote Bulgarian wines abroad. Galina is the founder and managing director of the Balkans International Wine Competition and Festival – very successful event, aiming to promote Balkan wines.
Master Class of Galina Niforou on Wine, Oil and Heritage Festival
is named “Diversity is Our Treasure – indigenous Bulgarian and Croatian grape varieties” and will present the wines of Bulgarian and Croatian producers.
From the beginning of the creation of the wine, the poets saw in it the joy of life and the resistance to death, or served as inspiration for the most beautiful verses.
The Wine, Olive and Heritage Festival 2019 will be held in Jelsa on Hvar Island for the first time, on May 23-26. Over the four days local and foreign participants will showcase Hvar Island’s culture on various levels, with local wines and olive products taking pride of place in cooperation with the Festival’s guests. Aimed at both Croatian and foreign tourists, the Festival’s aim is to promote local Hvar producers under the banner of ‘the Mediterranean Diet‘, a concept which comprises “knowledge and skills related to the careful relationship with the natural resources of land and sea which is vital not only for obtaining food, but for ensuring quality for living conditions and for a stable ecological system”.
The idea of the Festival is for local people to create it through their products, visions and desire for communal progress, at the same time learning something new together with the guests / visitors. The Festival aspires to promote “everything that is best about Hvar” in an entertaining and educational dimension.
#najbojeodHvara #JelsaWOH
The official opening of the Festival will be in the Jelsa Park on Thursday May 23 at 7pm,followed by a Gastro-Show by students from the High School of Catering, who will present their Mediterranean food dishes, alongside products by members of the local association ‘Trim’ and Cooperative ‘Faria’. Ivana Krstulović Carić, dipl.ing.agr, representing the association ‘Sustainable Island’ (‘Održivi otok’), will present event Throughthe four seasons in our vineyards on Hvar – The Mediterranean Diet’,explaining more about the direction the island is taking, with interesting details relating to the dishes and .
On Friday and Saturday, 24th and 25th May from 8pm onwards, all the participants in the Festival will be represented in a tasting of local wines and olive oils (the list of wine producers to date: Carić Wines, Pinjata Wines, the Svirče Agricultural Cooperative, Mario Carić, the Plančić Brothers, Huljić Wines, Plenković Wines; olive oil producers: Radojković and Curin).
During the day on Friday a workshop by Mirella Žanetić on extra virgin olive oil in Mediterranean food is planned, as well as a guided tour around the best-known Hvar wineries and oil mills, with tastings in Hvar’s exquisite surroundings (tour price 250 kn, bookings via: Info@tzjelsa.hr).
Within the Festival is a celebration of the local Chakavian dialect, and there will be a special variety programme of recitations, acting, dancing and singing by local children. On Saturday morning the Festival programme will start with a workshop by Professor Marija Vukelić titled “The Mediterranean in a glass of wine (and in verse)”, followed by a tour of the wineries. From 7pm there will be a special event called ‘the Bonkulović Evening’, with a range of Mediterranean culinary specialities on offer, prepared by Jelsa’s restaurateurs. The programme will last until midnight, with guest appearances by the Đakovo folk dancing group and tamburica players.
Apart from local participants, the first Wine, Oil and Heritage Festival will also be welcoming guests from Bulgaria. The well-known Bulgarian oenologist Galina Niforou (Wine MBA, BIWC Managing Director) will conduct a workshop titled “Diversity is Our Treasure – indigenous Bulgarian and Croatian grape varieties”.
The Festival closing ceremony will take place on Sunday 26th May at 11am, and will include the distribution of certificates of thanks.
All the workshops are free of charge, while the winery tours cost 250kn, reservations via: Info@tzjelsa.hr .
We look forward to welcoming you on your visit to discover the local treasures of Hvar Island. #eatlocal
Master Class with Italian sommelier Roberto Lepori will be held in Jelsa on June 09 at 11 AM at Grand Ballroom of the Municipality Hall of Jelsa on Hvar Island.
Book your place on info@hvar-otok-vina.org or +385 981606276 and discover the uniqness of the tastes of the indigenous wines of the emblematic communities of Croatia and Italy thet represent Mediterranean Diet in UNESCO protection.
foto: IKC
The cleverness and the awareness of being unique. Stories of heroic winemakers and of sublime flavors of the Mediterranean
Wines of Hvar
Bogdanjuša 2017 Carić
Beleca 2017 (Pošip, Bogdanuša) Tomić
Rosina 2015 (Drnekuša)
Plavac de Lux 2010 OPZ Svirče
Grand Cru 2010 (Plavac mali) Zlatan Otok
Wines of Brač
Pošip 2017 Stina
Wines of Cilento
Falanghina & Ceraso (Aglianico) SAN SALVATORE 1988
Roberto Lepori is Sommelier (Associazione Italiana Sommelier), International Wine & Food Journalist, Wine and Spirit Judge and Wine and Food Comunication Specialist
09:00 – 12:30 Ministry of Culture: THE 8TH INTERGOVERNMENTAL MEETING OF THE NETWORK OF THE SEVEN COUNTRIES FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET/ Stari Grad Town Library and Reading Room/ Stari Grad
19:00 Visit to the Jelsa Municipal Museum and a guided tour of Jelsa, meeting at the Veli Most (where the catamaran moors)/ Jelsa
20:00 Oenogastro evening: Bonkulović & Hvar Wine Tastings / New riva in Jelsa
After tasting the Hvar (Festival Hvar Otok Vina- 11.05.2018. Hvar – Hotel Amfora) white wines from wineries, members of the Hvar Winemakers Association, primarily Bogdanusa, we were left with superb impressions.The winemakers skills and knowledge, use of more and more modern technology, and above all their hard work, resulted in wine styles that we have been long waiting and hoping for.
Wines from the 2017 harvest have shown us liveliness and freshness of expression, delicate, clean aromas, and great balance in the taste.
VINA CARIĆ – BOGDANJUŠA
ZLATAN OTOK – PLENKOVIĆ: ZLATAN BOGDANUŠA
VINA TOMIĆ – BELECA
VUJNOVIĆ – PRČ
OPĆA POLJOPRIVREDNA ZADRUGA SVIRČE: BOGDANUŠA
JO AHEARNE – WILD SKINS
BRAČA PLANČIĆ – AGER
Bogdanusa as a sort is the ideal wine for summer refreshment on the sunny island of Hvar, perfectly suited for the terroir, protecting the wine acids in the grapes, which gives both resistance to draught and also freshness in the resulting wine. Even a variety like posip has difficulty surviving in these critical conditions.
We had the opportunity to experience a further, large step forward with two of the wines, which proved the stories from winemakers of old, that the Bogdanusa grape is capable of creating “great wines”. Wines with mighty bodies and a long life, during which they keep developing. Wines of long lasting tastes leaving strong, deep impressions.
In other words, Hvar wines are as contemporary as they come.
Mario Meštrović
Sommelier with international A.S.I.diploma-GOLD certificate
Hvar is the island of wine, its beautiful landscape is shaped by the vineyards.
Indigenous varieties are grown in the Hvar Wine Region such as Plavac mali, Bogdanuša, Prč, Darnekuša, Pošip, and many more.
Its long history of winemaking began more than 24 centuries ago, and has marked the life of the islanders. The festival “Hvar otok vina” – Hvar, Island of Wine will be held on May 10 & 11 in Hvar town to celebrate this long tradition of winemaking on the Island as a part of the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of organised tourism on Hvar.
PROGRAME
Thursday 10.05.2018. 20:30 h ARSENAL – HVAR TOWN
Wine & live music
While you enjoy tasting our wines, Hvar’s rising star, young Dino Petrić will sing for you
Dino Petrić
Friday 11.05.2018. 11:00h Hotel RIVA (Sunčani Hvar) – HVAR TOWN
Master classes – reservation on e-mail: info@hvar-otok-vina.org (limited number of places)
Mario Meštrović – Technology- Knowledge- Freshness in Dalmatian white wines
Mario Meštrović
Mario Meštrović is a Croatian sommelier with an International ASI Diploma – Golden Certificate and Diploma of Croatian Sommelier Club (Hrvatski Sommelier Klub)
Wine judge: Decanter World Wines Awards, London, IceWine du Monde 2012, 2013, 2018, 2014. Maribor Sommelier selection 2015. Muvina, Slovakia 2012. 2013.
2015. 2016. 2017. 2018. Vinař Roku, Prag, (The best winemaker of the year)
Czech Republic 2015. 2016. Salon of sparkling wines, Slovenia 2018.
This Master Class will describe white wines produced on the island, both monovarietal and blends, of varieties such as Bogdanuša , Prč, Pošip, Maraština, from the cellars of Tomić, Carić, PZ Svirče. Brača Plančić, Vujnović and Zlatan Otok-Plenković.
Bartolomeo Roberto Lepori – Plavac Mali: the noble son of a royal vine that crossed the oceans: Tribidrag/Primitivo/Zinfandel
Roberto Lepori is an Italian sommelier, wine journalist (La Cucina Italiana, Papageno, Vitae and others) and a wine judge: Città del Vino “La Selezione del Sindaco” in Italy; Franciacorta in Villa in Italy; Sangiovese Purosangue contest in Italy; International Wine Challange in England; The Michelangelo Wine and Spirit Awards in South Africa; International Wine Competition “Southern Russia” in Russia; BeoWine in Serbia; Montevino Competition in Montenegro; RoWine in Romania; Balkan International Wine Competition in Bulgaria, and others.
Roberto Lepori
Roberto often works with Network Television on the themes of food, and wine and has produced and interpreted documentary films on tourism and travel.
This Master Class will decribe the fascinating story of the history of Plavac Mali and its ancestors, that traveled across the Adriatic sea and far away across the ocean.
Thanks to a collaboration with Assoenologi sezione Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria (National Association of the Enologists and Enotechnicians of Italy) we will have the opportunity to taste some of the best Primitivo wines that represent different terroirs of the Apulia region:
Soc. Agricola POLVANERA di Filippo Cassano & C. APOLLONIO CANTOLIO TORREVENTO and Croatian Tribidrag or Crljenak from Zlatan Otok – Plenković, as the introduction to the story of Plavac mali of our members : Tomić, Carić, Pz Svirče, Brača Plančić.
Important anniversaries in 2018
160th anniversary of the meteorological station on Hvar, one of the oldest in Europe and the 160th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of dactyloscopy, Ivan Vucetic of Hvar.
The festival is organised by the Hvar Winemakers’ Association in collaboration with the Tourist Board and Hvar Town, and sponsors Sunčani Hvar Hotels & Assoenologi.
