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<\/a><\/p>\nJust back from Belgrade, where I have been having a lot of fun judging wines, eating, drinking and staying up too late.<\/p>\n
On Friday, we judged 160 wines; on Saturday we retasted the 33 highest-scoring wines to sort out the gold and silver medals. This was followed by a fun session choosing the trophy winners, and the overall wine of the competition. The quality was really high.<\/p>\n The best of show winner. Really lovely wine.<\/p>\n The talented young consultant winemaker Mladen Dragojlovic, who made the winning wine.<\/p>\n This gold medal winner was lovely. Serbian variety Prokupac is one to look out for.<\/p>\n Top sweet wine: a Traminer. It was quite beautiful.<\/p>\n Then I had a chance to look round Belgrade. It was a perfect November afternoon, with temperatures in the 20s C and lovely low sunlight. I took some pictures.<\/p>\n Bomb damage still evident from 1999.<\/p>\n Lunch at the question mark restaurant, Znak Pitanja, the oldest tavern in Belgrade. Amazing to sit outside in November.<\/p>\n Just back from Belgrade, where I have been having a lot of fun judging wines, eating, drinking and staying up too late. On Friday, we judged 160 wines; on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-road","category-serbia","tag-serbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8466,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"