World Wine Regions Europe

Moldova won its independence with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its people are ethnically similar to the

The oldest evidence of human winemaking comes to us from the country of Georgia and dates to about 6,000 BC.

Romania has a romance language, deep connections with France, and a wine culture that dates back to the Romans from

The geographic region called Macedonia stretches over northern Greece, part of Bulgaria, and the present-day landlocked country of Macedonia, which

Slovakia produces its wine along most of its southern border with Austria and Hungary. The Malokarpatská, “Lesser Carpathian” wine region,

The Czech Republic is better known for beer than wine. Some wine is made in the western area of Bohemia,

The horrible 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina damaged much of the region’s viticulture and it still has not recovered. The Neretva

Wine in Serbia goes back to Roman time, but the twentieth century saw the near total destruction of Serbia’s grapevines.

The Dinaric Alps split Croatia into two widely different wine regions, both producing primarily white grapes. The interior region, with

An ex-Yugoslav republic on the Adriatic coast across from Italy’s Puglia, Montenegro is dry and mountainous, with a Mediterranean climate.