I love Stumbleupon for the wide variety of sites that I’m led too. But also because those same people suggesting a wide variety of sites, sometimes use Stumbleupon to create photo galleries, area for poems, and every once in a while history narratives. Below is on of these write ups, the English is a little broken, but easy to follow. And it has a little historical note, that I didn’t even know.

Rajacke Pivnice (Pimnice) - translation: The wine cellars of Rajac,
are near the Serbian-bulgarian border, in East Serbia, 20 km south from town Negotin. About 1km from the wine cellars which are on the top of the hill is a village Rajac, where live the owners of the cellars.

The wineyards are on the same geographic paralel as the wineyards in Bretagna-France and they have about 265 sunny days in the year, which only have the island Hvar (Croatia) in ex Yugoslavia.

This small place on the hill has about 270 hoses made of a sand-stone which are predicted for making and keeping the wine in the big wooden barrels. This houses were built 200 years ago but there is suspicion that on this place was settlement even in 16th and 17th century. The stone walls are about 80 cm wide, and the temperature inside of the walls is allways between 12-16 degrees of Celsius (53-60 Degrees of Farenheit).

It is well known that in the 1880-ies, french wineyards were ill from Phyloxera, so the wine-producers were coming in Rajac for a vine and wine. They payed it very expensive, with “Napoleon’s gold coins”.

Very famous is a red wine from Rajac made of a different sorts of
grapes: bagrina, zacinak, black tamjanika, game boyader…

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