Dmytro Komarov Explores Bulgarian Winemaking Traditions in Bessarabia

Journalist and author of the project "The World Inside Out. Ukraine" project, Dmytro Komarov visited Odesa region for the second time during the 2025 season of his show.

This time he got acquainted with the traditions of Bulgarian winemaking in Bessarabia.

"The World Inside Out team traveled to the south of Ukraine to sunny Bessarabia! We saw a real grape plantation! How does the grape harvest holiday take place? How do Ukrainian Bulgarians preserve and pass on the culture of their ancestors to the next generation? How do they make homemade wine and what traditional dishes are cooked in Bessarabia?" the authors of the issue noted.

While working on the issue, the World Inside Out team repeated the experiment of the character in The Taming of the Shrew, played by Andriano Celentano, and investigated which method of wine production is more efficient: using equipment or the ancestral method of crushing the crop with their feet. However, they competed not with a mechanical press but with a hand crusher.

In March, Dmytro Komarov, a journalist and author of the project "World Inside Out. Ukraine" project, Dmytro Komarov started a new season of his show in 2025 in Odesa region. Together with border guards, the show's team visited Zmeinyi Island.

He is not the only blogger who has visited Odesa region in recent years. In September 2024, Olya Manko and Max Uzol continued to travel around the southern part of Odesa region and visited the city of Vilkovo, which is called the Ukrainian Venice.

This was the second video about Olya Manko and Max Uzol's trip. In the first one, they visited one of the most mysterious and exotic regions of Ukraine - Bessarabia, which can be reached only through Moldova. During their trip, the bloggers visited the resort village of Lebedivka, the cities of Bolhrad and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, and the villages of Semenivka, Frumushyka Nova, and Semysotka.

Also, the team of documentary filmmakers from the Thickets project, whose participants travel to the most remote and deserted villages of Ukraine on their way back from working on a documentary about interesting places in the center of Odesa region, stayed in Podil district and filmed another episode.

Earlier, the "Thickets" team visited the villages of Odesa region: Hrybivka, Prylymanske, Lymanske, and a number of other villages, and explored their history, name changes, population, and the catacombs in Nerubayske, which are the longest in the world.

Кирило Бойко