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The topic of this paper is a brief outline of viticulture and winemaking in Slovenia, starting from the phylloxera outburst and extending into the 1970s and partly the 1980s. The First chapter presents the general development trends, while the second chapter covers the vine and wine varieties as well as the structure of vineyards. Due to a very slow qualitative transformation in viticulture and winemaking processes, attention is paid to “self-propagated” (American) vine and wines, and the social stigma accompanying this type of wine production. In the last chapter, the example of Slovenian indigenous wine Cviček is presented as a case of the socio-political connotations. Both the wine produced from “self-propagated” vines as well as Cviček can be defined as “people’s wines”, as they were accessible to everyone and drank on every occasion, as opposed to quality wines that were dedicated to higher social strata. Wine was not a socially neutral product.
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Please note that in Slovenia the adjective “self-propagated” designed the American vines used to graft local vines as well as the wines produced using these vines. This explains why author decided to always indicate it into brackets.
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Today: the Podravje wine region, extending along the Drava river in north-east Slovenia, at the border with Croatia, Austria and Hungary.
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Today: the Posavlje wine region, extending along the Sava river in the south and south-eastern part of Slovenia, near the Croatian border.
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Today: the Littoral (Primorje) wine region, extending along the Italian border in western Slovenia.
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“It was allowed to add 1% of pure alcohol, mix different varieties of wine, deacidise with lime, add tartatic acid and sodium bisulfate, and colour with fresh red wine grape skins or by adding caramel. To sweeten the wine with pure sugar, a special permission from the authorities was needed”.
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For more information about the conceptual framework of correlation between food and nationalism as a definiton of common identity see Atsuko Ichijo and Ronald Ranta: Food, National Identity and Nationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. The concept largely relys on the “banal nationalism”—a concept which refers to everyday actions building a shared sense of national belonging and which was presented by Michael Billing in his book Banal Nationalism, Sage, 1995.
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Here it is referred to the Black Velvet (Žametna črnina or Žametovka) grapevine from Maribor, which is said to be around 400 years old. However, it is completely ignored that Cviček is not produced in the vicinity of Maribor (i.e. In eastern Slovenia).
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Lazarević, Ž. (2019). Winegrowing in Slovenia in the Twentieth Century. In: Conca Messina, S.A., Le Bras, S., Tedeschi, P., Vaquero Piñeiro, M. (eds) A History of Wine in Europe, 19th to 20th Centuries, Volume I. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27772-7_11
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