Kristančič family cellar at Ceglo with 25 hectares of vineyard straddling the Slovenian and Italian border, organic certified since 2004, fermented without added yeast and bottled unfiltered.
Tip: Tastings are by appointment: five wines at 40 euros a head or nine at 55 euros, both opening with the Puro sparkling.
Fifth-generation cellar above Medana working cru parcels the family has held since 1860. Marjan Simčič made his first vintage in 1988 and added the Opoka single-vineyard line in 2008.
Tip: The Opoka bottlings are named for the marl the vines sit on. Medana Jama is the Rebula parcel, planted between 37 and 73 years ago.
Ceglo estate farming 14 hectares and releasing about 55,000 bottles a year. Marko Skočaj took over in 1986 and put the Dolfo label, his grandfather's name, on the first bottles in 1989.
Tip: The cellar was built with its own tasting room, so visits happen where the wine is made rather than in a separate shop.
Tastings at the Kristančič family cellar on the border ridge at Ceglo, poured with house salami or prosciutto, cheese and olives. Booking is compulsory.
Tip: Tasting lunches and dinners with a cellar tour can be arranged separately, and bottles can be bought during the tasting.
Marko Skočaj built a tasting room into the new Dolfo cellar at Ceglo, so visits happen beside the tanks rather than in a separate shop.
Tip: The Dolfo name comes from Skočaj's grandfather, who gave it to the label when bottling started in 1989.
Restaurant inside the 16th century manor at Ceglo, listed in the MICHELIN Guide, with an in-house vinoteka pouring Brda growers alongside the tasting menus.
Tip: The kitchen runs Monday and Sunday 16:00 to 21:00 and Friday and Saturday midday to 23:00, and is closed Tuesday to Thursday.
Boutique hotel in the manor at Ceglo, with individually furnished rooms, a pool, a restaurant listed in the MICHELIN Guide and a vinoteka pouring Brda growers.
Tip: The wine cellar runs its own degustations for guests, drawn from producers across the region rather than a single estate.
A four-star boutique hotel inside 16th century castle walls at Ceglo, with a restaurant holding a Michelin Plate under chef Mitja Humar and a vinoteka drawing on producers from the whole region.
The list: A wine room inside the hotel that gathers bottles from across Brda rather than from one estate, with tastings and a full wine list alongside the restaurant.
Tip: It is the one place in Brda where you can taste across many estates after the cellars have shut for the day.
Thirty hectares at Ceglo, twenty-five of them vines planted along the border strip where Brda meets Collio, organic certified and held by the Kristančič family since 1820.
Tip: The wines ferment without added yeast and are bottled unfiltered, so expect sediment in the older bottles.
The Kristančič cellar at Ceglo ferments without added yeast and bottles unfiltered, on the stated principle that what nature gives beats what the winemaker adds.
Tip: The Lunar Ribolla is the extreme end of the house style and costs three times the standard Ribolla.