Plum Celebration in Troyan and Oreshak, Bulgaria

The yearly Bulgarian Celebration of Plum in Troyan will be hung on 22-23 September 2018 and will unite every one of the admirers of the foods grown from the ground items. The celebration itself goes back to 1993 when it was first started out in Oreshak. 

The celebration is associated with the primary business of the Troyan area - the development of plum culture, the generation of the Troyan rakia, and a wide range of items – primarily sweet.

On September 22, the primary complement will, obviously, be the enormous Bulgarian festival - the Autonomy Day of Bulgaria, for which the coordinators will offer the inhabitants and visitors of the town a move execution of the Gathering "Chinari". Toward the day's end, the official beginning of the celebration will be given with a bubbly walk and a melodic program.

On September 23 toward the beginning of the day, a pot for bubbling rakia will be lit, and Bulgarian music will be played for the duration of the day from the open stage. Try not to miss the opposition for the best natively constructed plum rakia, which is customary for the celebration. We seek after the best one to win!

You can visit the workmanship workshops for earthenware production and cutting, live exhibitions of adornments making, improving flameworking, decoupage, woodcarving, painting, and so forth. You can likewise make something without anyone else's input or get some unique artworks, which you can take home. In addition, you can taste numerous tasty items there, attempt the rakia, or get other customary Bulgarian beverages.

If you missed it this year, there is always next year to look forward to....

Karnobatska Grape Rakia

The Karnobatska Grape Rakia is the only rakia on the Bulgarian market which achieves its unique purity by the power of an ancient Christian rite. The secret is the silver cross which the technologists of "Vinprom Karnobat" every year dunk in the cauldrons right after the rakia's boiling. Thus the rakia is purified to perfection and gets part of the sanctity of the Christian relic. Silver is the perfect natural way to eliminate residue in the most eco-friendly way and to give the rakia purity, rich taste and strong grape aroma. 

Today, "Vinprom Karnobat" uses the power of the precious metal in the form of special silver filters installed in the boiling containers. The key to the wonderful features of the "Karnobatska Grape Rakia” is the two unique local wine grape varieties Tamianka and Red Muscat. The Tamianka grape variety has been grown for thousands of years in Karnobat. It gives the superior flavour of the rakia and enriches it with colorful tinges of boxwood, geranium, rose and cloves. The Red Muscat makes the taste strong and rich. The rakia matures for months in unique dogwood barrels that can only be seen in the cellars of the "Vinprom Karnobat".

(Source: http://vinpromkarnobat.bg/Karnobatska_Grape_Rakia.htm)