View of part of a building at the Late Antiquity fortress near Byala. Photo by BGNES
Posted on 08/06/2010 6:51:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The "winery" consisted of two stone buildings connected with an wooden passage. One of the buildings was filled up with grapes, which was then pressed with large rectangular stones. According to the archaeological team, similar wineries have been found the Caucasus, the Crimean Peninsula, Serbia, Israel. Yotov... said the last such "winery" was found in Israel at the beginning of 2009, and is believed to have been the largest in the Byzantine Empire. Yotov thinks the winery of the fortress near Byala was part of a monastery... The fortress near Byala is located on an area of 38-40 decares, and is dated back to the time of the Byzantine Emperors Anastasius I (491-518 AD), and Justinian I (527-565 AD). The only previously known information about the fortress comes from a note from 1892 of the brothers Hermingild and Karel Skorpil, the founders of Bulgarian archaeology, and a short expedition in the 1970s. Ancient Greek geographer Strabo mentions in his writings of a fortress called Larisa to the south of Odessos (today's Varna) but it is still unclear whether the fortress discovered by the Bulgarian archaeologists is in fact Larisa.
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View of part of a building at the Late Antiquity fortress near Byala. Photo by BGNES
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That’s nothing. wgflyer discovered that if you feed Bulgarian chickens Mayonnaise they wont lay eggs for a month.
Bulgarian Wine Tour
That would be well aged.
This cellars looks like it could be in the town of Melnik. The wine they make there is actually very decent.
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Wine Cellar In Melnik
Sounds like they actually found some really, really dried-up grapes.
That’s almost cannibalism for a chicken. :’)
That worked. :’) Thanks JPB.
Augh! My eyes! There’s not enough wine...
Thanks for the pictures. They brought up some fine memories of enjoyable evenings spent in good company sipping some of the same wines. There are a couple of other quite good wines: Uniqato and Uniqato Rubin. A friend of mine used to import a lot of the Melnik wines to Texas. Sadly, he quit the wine distribution business, so now i’ll have to wait until the next trip to the area.
Well, it was more like 2 weeks. But they sure kept their appetites. Stupid chickens!
I could use one of them chickens now for Sunday dinner.
We ate one of them while I was there. I’m still chewing it.
I guess you should have gone to KFC.
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