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.
Address: Ceglo 18, 5212 Dobrovo, Slovenia, Brda
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.
Family estate at Gonjače pouring Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and a sparkling white, with cellar tours and seven hectares of Brda fruit trees alongside the vines.
Tip: The tasting room takes thirteen indoors and fifty outside, so summer groups are seated in the open.
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.
Small room at the Blažič farm on the border at Plešivo, pouring the spontaneously fermented and macerated whites built on Rebula, Sauvignonasse and Malvazija.
Tip: Twelve seats indoors and ten outside, so groups have to call ahead rather than turn up.
Klet Brda's historic cellar inside Dobrovo Castle, with a tasting room for groups of four to ten and four ranges poured: de Baguer, A Plus, Single Vineyard and the Virgo sparkling.
Tip: Bookings go through [email protected] and the tasting runs in Slovenian or English.
The Ščurek family pour in a room hung with the paintings commissioned for their labels, working through the Up, Stara Brajda and Pikolit bottlings alongside a cellar walk.
Tip: Open Wednesday to Friday from 14:00 and Saturday from 10:00, closed Sunday to Tuesday, so plan mid-week afternoons.
Tastings at the Štekar family farm above Snežatno, poured with plates built from the kitchen garden, the house chickens and their own cured meats.
Tip: Slots run Thursday to Saturday between 16:00 and 19:00 and have to be booked ahead.
