A festival of Handmade Wine, Gastronomic Traditions and Handicrafts entitled “Golden Barrel” will be staged starting with this year. The event will take place annually, the second week/Sunday after the Easter holidays, while the place will be chosen based on the place of origin of the best handmade wines chosen at the contest held the previous year, IPN reports.

Valeriu Lazar, the head of the Chamber of Trade and Industry, which organizes the event, said the festival was conceived as an occasion for promoting not only the wine, gastronomic traditions and handicrafts, but also the tourist attractions of the country and will be annually mounted in different settlements. “The already recognized contest “Golden Barrel” has the potential to become a mass event that promotes our authentic traditions, as an element of the national tourist capacities,” stated Valeriu Lazar.

The wines competing in the contest “Golden Barrel” will be exhibited at the festival. The visitors will be able to choose the best wine in the category “Consumer Preference” by tasting. There will be also awarded the best producers that will be selected by a professional jury headed by the chair of the Enology Department of the Technical University Anatol Balanuta.

Earlier, the prizes of the contest “Golden Barrel” were handed over within the National Wine Day. The contest yearly attracts about 500 wine producers. As many as 135 producers of the 7,500 competing have been awarded at the 12 previous contests.