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The Brda wine region counts 2000 ha of vineyards
on marl hills on the right side of the Soča river. This soil
was 50 million years ago still under the sea and consists
of thousands of tiny layers, created by mud and sand crawling
undersea. Between these layers many shells were caught that
during deep ploughing resurface. The soil is poor of organic
particles, but is rich of minerals and salts, that the vines
slowly absorb with their widely spread roots and store into
their grapes.
The climate gives an important touch to
the wine, since the effects of the Mediterranean and of the
Alps meet in this land. In this way we produce wines with
a rich body and a clear flower that are good young and fresh,
but that also show all their beauty only after a few years
of ripening in wooden barrels and finally in bottles.
Winemaking in these place is known already
from Celtic-roman times, the current choice of wine varieties
was finally completed in the last century and especially after
the devastation caused by the phylloxera louse, which destroyed
most of the vineyards in the second half of the XIX century.
Rebula is the oldest variety that preserved the most and we
reasonably call it Brda's authotonic variety.
It's's oldest naming is from the year 1336,
the tokaj has slightly shorter national right, while verduc
and pikolit have been here for a long time, but they are marginal
varieties. Red rebula, or pokalca, was once very liked, but
nowadays in our wine region no one grows it. We mostly keep
producing variety wines, but more and more winemakers produce
one or two blends as the rose of their production.
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