Bulgaria · The old heart
Thracian Valley
The broad plain south of the Balkan range, farmed for wine since Thracian times and still the country's most planted region.
A wide, warm valley between the Balkan mountains and the Rhodopes, dotted with tumuli and stone-built villages.
- Climate
- Transitional continental, with long warm autumns.
- Soils
- Alluvial loam over clay, with pockets of sand near the rivers.
- Signature grapes
- Mavrud · Rubin
