The municipality of Lezama held last Sunday the "Uzta Eguna", a local fair which, coinciding with vintage time, aims to promote the txakoli (local white wine) of the Txorierri region.

Between other attractions, all the people congregated within the town had the chance to taste the juice of the grapes coming from this year's vintage. Besides, the nine wineries of the Txorierri who took part offered the attendees about 750 liters of txakoli to taste. The wine-makers that were present at the fair were the following ones: Garkalde Txakolina, Basalbeitiko Txakolina, Txakoli Ayarza, Bodega Aitabitxi, Magalarte Txakolina, Larrabetzuko Torre Txakolina, Erdikoetxe Txakolina, Sasikoetxe eta Txakoli Sasines.

There were not absent in the Uzta Eguna diverse producers of the agricultural world of Biscay who offered to the people gathered in Lezama cheese of sheep and goat, bread, Basque cake, honey, vegetable, fruit and pork products.

The goal of the fair was to thank the efforts made by the txakoli producers of the Txorierri to elaborate a first leve winel and make the name of the region well-known within all the corners of the Basque Country.  pictures