“There are problems with the preservation of the vines throughout the entire country,” Associate Professor Angel Ivanov, wine technologist and lecturer with the Agrarian University in Bulgaria’s second biggest city of Plovdiv.

“2014 started very badly, yet from the spring – frequent rain-showers, pouring rain, hail and storms, which hampered the normal process of the phenophase of the vines,” Ivanov remarked.

According to the expert, the grapes crop will most likely register a decrease but the loss will be different for the different regions in the country.

“In some places the crops may reach 60% - 70% of last year’s ones, while in other places there will be almost nothing to harvest,” Ivanov commented further.

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