Wine wasn’t Robert Hayk’s first career. He was a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, and before that worked for three years at the U.S. embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the heady post-Soviet 1990s.

Paul Hobbs Helped Prove Argentina’s Premium Potential. Now He’s Partnering With Robert Hayk On A “Next Argentina” Playbook For Bulgaria—Starting In The Vineyard. ByLayne Randolph, Contributor. Forbes ...

Zagreus Mavrud Vinica 2019 is made with hand-picked and hand-sorted grapes in the first half of October. When hand-sorting, the grapes are laid to dry on straw mats for two months, then crushed and ...

WASHINGTON — Looking for a wine with a storied history, that’s delicious to drink and inexpensive to try? Well, consider trying something from the east — as in Eastern Europe. Bulgaria has been slowly ...

In the summer of 2000, just as the Tour de France was wrapping up and Lance Armstrong was about to win his second yellow jersey, I met a young winemaker named Louis Barruol at his property, Château de ...

In 2025, Bulgarian wineries produced a total of 66 million litres of wine, according to Krasimir Koev, Executive Director of the Executive Agency on Vine and Wine. Koev made the announcement while ...

Join me in a toast to our newest allies, the Bulgarians! Actually, I'm way ahead of you in the toasting department. About an hour ago, I cracked open a bottle of Chateau Boriana 2000, a little merlot ...

The European Union remains the world’s largest producer, consumer, and exporter of wine, according to the European Parliamentary Research Service. Yet in recent decades, the sector has faced mounting ...

The Bulgarian agriculture minister, Mehmed Dikme, has said that a special fund is to be set up to assist in the promotion of Bulgarian wines in export markets. The fund will raise money from export ...

The international price of Bulgarian wine rose by US$0.10 on average in 2002, according to figures from the the chamber of Bulgarian vine growers and wine producers, to reach US$1.0. Chairman of the ...