Върбица

Appellation

Върбица is an appellation in Bulgaria in Varbitsa.

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Key facts

Type: ЗНП (PDO)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2007-05-10
Area: 45,671 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 30.03 × 28.43 km
Centre: 43.0363° N, 26.7619° E
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon
Min planting density: 1,112 vines/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 15 km south-west of Veliki Preslav
Nearest city: 29 km south-west of Shumen 72,342 people
To the sea: 84 km
Rivers nearby: Kamchiya (19 km)
Same latitude: Niagara Peninsula (Canada), Upper Hudson (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 130–1,003 m
Mean elevation: 386 m

Measured over the whole outline on 147,072 elevation cells of about 56 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Communes · 1

Varbitsa

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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