Buzet cellar founded in 2006 by Dimitri Brecevic, built on spontaneous fermentation and extended barrel ageing of Malvazija Istarska, Teran and Refosk, bottled unfiltered.
Tasting: Visits and tastings by appointment, contact by phone.
Tip: These are slow-built wines; ask the cellar which current release is drinking best rather than reaching for the newest vintage.
Family distillery on the Cicarija slopes above Buzet, built around Teranino, its signature liqueur made from black Teran wine and ten spices, alongside a wider rakija and gin range.
County ethnographic museum in Pazin castle with a permanent Economy collection of rural Istrian agricultural tools, part of the wider material record of the peninsula's farming and cellar traditions.
Full production walkthrough at Aura's Buzet distillery, from fermentation through to bottling of Teranino and the estate's gin and rakija range.
Winemaker Dimitri Brecevic hand-picks fruit for Piquentum, wild-ferments with no added bacteria or enzymes, and bottles unfiltered from a cellar in a 1930s water cistern in Buzet.
Tip: Piquentum's Teran ages slower than most Istrian reds, ask the cellar which vintage is drinking best right now rather than reaching for the newest release.