A busy end to the week: from the Saltpans feast to Brda and Wine

22. april 2016 ob 10.35 • Šmartno - MMC RTV SLO

Every year Šmartno hosts the Brda and Wine festival, where you can taste wine from the best winemakers in the region and try out food prepared by renowned master chefs. Foto: Organizer

The Saltpans feast will be where else but in Piran. Foto: Organizer

Despite the somewhat poorer weather forecast for the end of the week, there will be no shortage of events. It all begins in the Goriška Brda region with an enogastronomic event entitled Pozdrav pomladi (The Welcoming of Spring) in Plešivo today. The next day you can go over the hill to Šmartno for the Brda and Wine festival. At the same time Piran will host the Saltpans feast.

Every year Šmartno hosts the Brda and Wine festival, where you can taste wine from the best winemakers in the region and try out food prepared by renowned master chefs. Foto: Organizer

The Saltpans feast will be where else but in Piran. Foto: Organizer

The Welcoming of Spring will take place at the Bužinel farm inn where you will be able to taste dishes from sea bass carpaccio, shrimps, mussels and oysters to marinated anchovies, cuttlefish, buzara sauce and pasta with lobsters, orzo pasta with asparagus and prawns, cod with polenta, prosciutto, grilled meat and bresaola dried beef. Apart from the food, guests will also be able to taste different sorts of white wine. The event will last two days, on Friday between 16h and 23h and on Saturday between 13h and 19h in Plešivo.
The price for a ticket including the food is 30 euros

Weekend marked by wine and salt
The traditional wine-culinary event Brda and Wine will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 12h onwards in Šmartno, in the town’s pictoresque "gase" narrow streets. The most beautiful medieval town in the Brda region invites you every year to try out different culinary specialties and taste the “briška” wines from both sides of the border.
An emphasis on culinary will be put on Saturday, when visiting chefs will prepare traditional dishes with a modern touch in front of the eyes of visitors. The evening will end with the music of the Nova jazz trio.

The entrance ticket for Saturday costs 45 euros. On Sunday, when there will only be an entertainment program and wine tasting, entry will be free of charge.

On both days it will also be very interesting in Piran, which invites to the 14th Saltpans feast. The festivity brings back to life the times when workers set out to the saltpans to make salt, which was the city’s most important source of income for centuries. At the Tartini Square in Piran there will be a fair dedicated to salt and to the gifts from nature.
At different venues throughout Piran local associations, gastronomic providers and a variety of artists will also present themselves. The fair event will also be enriched with a cultural program which will feature performances by folklore groups, musical performers and the presentation of a saltpans family.

And what about Ljubljana? There will be food and drinks there as well as the Italija Fest returns to the Pogačar Square. At this event you will be able to pamper your taste buds with traditional tastes from kitchens from the Italian regions. The event will run from Saturday until Monday between 8h and 17h.