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Croatia travel fans celebrate Easter grape festival
25 March 2008
Easter weekend has seen Croatia aficionados Down Under celebrate the eastern European country's Berba grape harvest.
Started across the Adriatic in the eighteenth century, the festival gives residents and holidaymakers alike the chance to do their own grape-crushing and then taste the fruits of their labour during a wine-tasting session.
At New Zealand's Soljans Estate Winery, Berba has just been celebrated for the sixth year in a row, with enthusiastic fans of Croatian gastronomy availing of special food platters and 'novo vino' - new wine juice which has just started to ferment.
Furthermore, Soljans delighted Croatia enthusiasts with native music and kolo dancing, a folk phenomenon popular in Serbia and Bosnia as well as Croatia.
During the traditional dance, a group of people - which can comprise several dozen - hold each other by the hands or around the waist and move in a circle.
New Zealand's annual Berba celebration acknowledges the high regard in which Easter is held across the Adriatic, with residents of Dalmatia in particular treating it with more fervour than Christmas.
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