World's Oldest Vine Harvested in Maribor

Despite the fact that this year the weather was not favourable for wine-growers in the Stajerska region, NE Slovenia, the oldest vine in the world offered rich harvest this year, said its keeper Anton Zafosnik at the grape harvest of the 400-year-old vine.

Despite bad weather numerous visitors came to see the harvest of the oldest vine which grows in Maribor, Slovenia's second-largest city.
The ceremony marked the end of the tourist event "In the Arms of the Old Vine", organised by the local tourist board together with Maribor wine growers and other related groups.
Just like every year, the grapes from the oldest vine was harvested and then pressed into must. Later it will be ripened into wine, bottled in small bottles and used as special official presents by the Maribor municipality.

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