History

Four thousand years ago Thracian merchants came to the west from the Black Sea to purchase the most famous ancient drink. Soon afterwards, eight centuries later, the Thracians would be facing their last war – however, the merchants did not have the slightest suspicion of that. Those were magical times. Thracian kings went hunting for wild bulls and lions. The vine-growers from the Rhodope Mountains were enchanted by young Orpheus’s harp.

2500 years ago, this was the valley of the Bessians, the most rebellious of Thracians. They safeguarded and kept the sanctuary of the god of wine and were known as the most competent in his cult’s rituals.

Hellenes from the south polis called it “Twice born”, Dionysus. Could that have been a prophecy about the revival of the Valley and its wine?

After the Great Migration of the Peoples, the bloodline in the valley changed and different people came. The wine, however, remained. It was praised in the songs of the Bards from the West and the poems of the East poets.

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