18/07/2024
The next day we visited another wine region – Vipava Valley, picturesque wine region located in the western part of Slovenia, between the Alpine, Karst and Mediterannean world. It's an idylic landscape covered with vineyards and fruit trees – sleeping beauty of Slovenian tourism. The valley is opened to the west, allowing sub-mediterranean climate to mix with continental climate and creating ideal conditions for winegrowing. This is also one of the windiest places in Slovenia, famous for very strong north-east wind Burja – Bora, which blows from mountain slopes to the valley with speeds up to 180 km/h. In Vipava valley we visited some of the best wineries and tasted some of the most exquisite wines. 🥂🍾
We started with Burja Wine Estate, biodynamic winery, famous for hollistic approach in winemaking. Great emphasis is on local varieties and original expression of each vineyard. We tasted 6 exquisitive wine samples, together with local cheeses. We were lucky to meet winemaker in person, and he even took us around the winecellar. Another specialtiy of the Burja Wine Cellar is that their wine cellar is built vertically, into the rock, according to the principle of gravity and their use of concrete eggs. 🍷
We continued with Povh Winery, family estate, led by young and ambitious winemaker. The winery mostly produces fresh wines, they are most proud of their Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Yellow Muscat and Vipava's autochtonous Zelen. They are an extraordinary producer of Orange Rebula Wine. Great tasting area with the view over the vineyards. Povh Winery is located in Goče village, one of the oldest Slovenian wine village, famous for stone houses and narrow streets. In the past, each house had its own wine cellar.
For the end we visited Lepa Vida Winery, boutique wine cellar, nestled among vineyards. We tasted 9 exquisite wines, together with local snacks and heard so many interesting stories of local culture, geography and history of the wine region and of course winemaking. Very unique and great wine experience.
Another lovely day in the vineyards! 😊🥂🍾🍷
