(28 Dec 2024)
MONTENEGRO WINE
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 20 November 2024
1. Various aerial shots of Plantaze company’s vineyards ++ MUTE++
2. Various Sipcanik hills and remains of the fortress
3. Tracking shot of the entrance of the winery beneath the hill ++MUTE+
4. Various of wine barrels inside the winery
5. Various of worker pouring wine into plastic jag
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bojan Bracanovic, sommelier and tourist guide:
“This place, in the past, it used to be a very important, strategically important place during the Ottoman Empire, and they used it, basically, as a huge fortress. The remains of the fortress are still on the top of this hill. Later, in the late (19)60s the Yugoslav army started drilling the hill so, actually, they used this place as a military base or, let’s say, a military hangar for 25- 26 jets. It was like that up to (19)99. Later, in November 2007, big reconstruction was done here, and the place was originally turned from the military base into the wine cellar.”
7. Various of wine barrels
8. Interior of the wine cellar
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bojan Bracanovic, sommelier and tourist guide:
“The whole place is very long, actually, 356 meters in total, with seven meters height and approximately 13.5 meters wide. Here, we have 77 big barrels, oak barrels, from Garbelotto, Veneto region, Cornegliano, so Italian production, but also 450 barrique barrels. So, our best red wines, some of our best red wines, are ageing even here.”
10. Table set up with wine glasses
11. Wine glasses on the table
12. Bracanovic presenting visitors with a bottle of wine
13. Bracanovic pouring wine into glass
14. Visitors tasting wine
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bojan Bracanovic, sommelier and tourist guide:
“Only a few kilometers away from here, there is the entrance to this huge vineyard. In one single piece, at one complex, it is still the biggest vineyard in whole Europe with amazing, tremendous 2,310 hectares in total. During the (19)60s, there was another vineyard on the other side of town but this huge vineyard here, more than two-thirds of it was grown between (19)68 and (19)72, about 1,500 hectares. Later, we continued growing more and more, so obviously today, it is still the biggest one in the whole of Europe in one single piece.”
16. Various aerial shots of vineyards ++ MUTE++
17. Giant replica of bottle of Vranac wine placed near the entrance of the winery ++MUTE++
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 23 November 2024
18. SOUNDBITE (Montenegrin) Mark Juncaj, local historian:
“For a time, Montenegrins used some parts of the (old) fortress as one of their defensive positions, but (the hill) gained special military significance after World War II when the hangar, the airstrip and one of the military bases of the Yugoslav Air Force were built (inside it).”
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 20 November 2024
19. Various of river flowing with the remains of the fortress in the background
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 23 November 2024
20. SOUNDBITE (Montenegrin) Mark Juncaj, local historian:
“On April 27 in 1999, during NATO bombing (of the then Yugoslavia), Sipcanik was one of NATO’s military targets. It is believed that over 20 planes were inside the hangar at that time, and they were all severely damaged.”
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 20 November 2024
21. Various of barrels inside the cellar
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Sipcanik, Montenegro – 23 November 2024
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