Plešivo cellar the Ščurek family traces to 1823, with a tasting room hung as a picture gallery. The range runs from the Rebula-based Up to the Stara Brajda old-vineyard blends and a Pikolit.
Tip: The cellar opens Wednesday to Friday from 14:00 and Saturday from 10:00, and is closed Sunday to Tuesday.
Address: Plešivo 44, 5212 Dobrovo v Brdih, Slovenia, Brda
Medana estate running an inn and an organic cellar on the same site since 1918. The wines are long skin-contact whites, among them Ortodox, Quela and a bottling of the local Verduc.
Tip: The kitchen keeps unusual hours: open Monday and Saturday midday, closed Tuesday to Thursday, dinner Friday and Saturday.
Šlovrenc estate where the whites take 7 to 60 days on skins and then two to three years in 225 litre French oak. The Amfora blends Rebula, Malvazija and Sauvignonasse.
Tip: Restaurant and rooms share the estate. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday from 18:30, with a Saturday lunch service, and booking is required.
Dobrovo estate built on Rebula alone, bottling traditional-method sparkling wines plus the still Rebula Journey and Rebula Golden Époque. Run today by Simon Simčič.
Tip: The house was the home of oenologist Zvonimir Simčič, long-time director of the Brda cooperative cellar and the man who pushed Rebula back into the region's plantings.
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.
Medana cellar that first bottled in 1989 and adopted the peacock label a year later. The range splits into Classic, Pavó, Artwork and Curioso lines across seven Classic wines.
Tip: The estate lists three Decanter World Wine Awards medals for its Chardonnay: silver for 2013 and 2011 and bronze for 2009.
The Dobrovo cooperative cellar, built in 1957 and owned outright by its members. It works 1,400 hectares of vineyard for 400 grower families and ships to 26 countries.
Tip: A self-guided tasting of 24 samples costs 20 euros and runs weekday afternoons at 13:00 or 14:30, with a guided cellar walk at 14:30.
