The port of Vidin, on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria, is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia.
Vidin has a fertile hinterland renowned for its wines. Our first visit of the day was to the Dos Alamos Winery. This estate makes excellent use of the local terroir where plenty of sunshine bathes their hillside vineyards producing high quality grapes.
We sampled one white, one rosé and two red wines with accompanying charcuterie in the candlelit cellar. The quality of the wines was excellent.
The second red wine was served by pipette from a newly
broached barrel by the owner of the winery.
We returned to Vidin to visit the Baba Vida fortress.
Our guide Alex was keen to show us some of the
pre-communist architecture of Vidin as well as the synagogue and mosque.
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