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Piolalibri, the reference point for the community and for the Italian wines in Brussels
The Bar Balkans, Wine

Piolalibri, the reference point for the community and for the Italian wines in Brussels

Piolalibri bookstore and winery is the reference point for the Italian community in Brussels. Founded in 2007 by Jacopo Panizza, this is a meeting place with a wide selection of fine wines from all Italian regions, and wines by the glass changing monthly. And welcomed BarBalkans for the event "Poveri noi. Tales from Bihać and from the Balkan route" (more…)
Discovering a wine cellar in a Yugoslav bunker
The Bar Balkans, Wine

Discovering a wine cellar in a Yugoslav bunker

Šipčanik Bunker of Plantaže Winery is one of the largest and most impressive wine cellars in Europe. It is a 356-meter-long old bunker, secretly built under a mountain. In Yugoslav times, it could host up to 25 military jets and, since 2007, has become the place where two million liters of wine are aged in oak barrels (more…)