The legends talk about the origins of the God of the wines - Dionis ( his Roman name is Bachus), and they say he has his best wine cellars in the Strumica region. The same God today we celebrate as St.Triphun on 14th of February.During the archeological researches in this area we found good traces of the great knowledge of winemaking in the ancient times, in the kingdom of Phillip II and Alexander The Great. The process of winemaking is like a great celebration in the Hamzali valley. People from the surrounding villages come to join us in picking up the grapes taking good care to collect by hand all ripe and healthy fruits in small baskets which are then put in a truck. The truck brings the baskets to the receiving hopper which is in the near of the vineyards, where the workers take the grapes out. Then each fruit is put on a track where it is carefully selected and cleared from all leafs and stems by specially trained persons. After passing the destemer and the decrusher beautiful, fresh , good coloured and round little grapes are lead to the fermentors. There the process continues in a very well controlled manner which leads to the highest qualities of the wine. About © Copyright Dalvina winery, Skopje june 2011