Our sparkling wine starts its way in old oak barrels brought in the cellar by Franci around 35 years ago at the beginning of his winemaking journey. We always keep our sparkling wines terroir driven as much as possible. We never filter, disgorge or add any kind of dosage in our sparkling wines.
History
Around year of 1820 family ancestors came in the area because they had to ran away from black plague. A small house was built to protect the family and a wooden barn was built for livestock....
Around the year of 1975 Marija brings his husband Franci to the vineyard area. He loves what he sees and decides to buy the land beside pre-owned land from Marija's family. Franci already had passion for drinking wine back then but didn't have the knowledge needed and his own vineyard.
Find us in Rogaška Slatina, the Slovenian cradle of glassmaking, in the south of the wine-growing region of Styria.
Our vineyard is located at approximately 300-330 meters above sea level in a southeastern and southern location, which provides optimal conditions for the production of healthy and high-quality grapes.
Due to the production method that emphasizes minimal interventions, our sparkling wines live even after several years of aging on the lees in the cellar. The sparkling wines are made according to the traditional method and are not disgorged or filtered.
Our vineyard grows in a combination of loam and limestone. The vines are minimally stressed, which means that the winter pruning is done using the one spar and one cutting system. This method of pruning gives us higher quality of the same wine, as well as a greater concentration of flavors, since all energy is redirected to one spar.
Each vine is processed individually several times throughout the year. In winter, we prune the vineyard with manual vine shears. In the spring, we focus on reducing young shoots that do not bear fruit. In the summer, we ensure the right ratio of leaves to fruit until the end of the summer, when we harvest by hand with the help of family and friends.
The realization that man cannot create anything that could come close to the beauty and harmony of nature led us to the realization that in the process of creating ever-new and exciting processes in nature, we can only be its companion.
We have comprehensively transferred this philosophy to the creation of our sparkling wines - with selected steps in production and processing, precisely and with a sense of essential moments, we follow nature in the creation of unique sparkling wines.
We grow the grapes for our sparkling wines ourselves and harvest them by hand.
The temperature in the cellar is natural or uncontrolled, and therefore in winter, when the temperature in the cellar drops, fermentation in the bottle can also stop. In spring, when the temperature rises, the yeasts awaken and fermentation begins again.
In this way, we achieve our goal. Due to the slowed-down fermentation processes and long maturation on the lees, the taste and aroma transition into a beautiful harmony of ripeness and acidity, and the dimension of the soul of the sparkling wines increases immeasurably.
