New World in Brda

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Funky · Contemplative

A year on the skins in buried qvevri, two years in barrel and five more in bottle before release. The house's defining wine: deeply tannic, oxidative and savoury.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Lemon yellow, with the herb, green pepper and elderflower bouquet the cellar attributes to Sauvignonasse grown on Brda flysch. Andrej Benedetic named the wine after the nickname his university friends gave him.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Intense yellow with green undertones. The cellar calls Chardonnay the pillar of its complex white blends and treats the varietal bottling the same way: rich, complex and slightly spicy, smooth and velvety on the palate.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Festive

Golden with the depth Chardonnay gives, and a very persistent mousse. Varietal character dominates, and the long finish closes on minerality rather than fruit.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Savoury · Contemplative

Dense colour with copper nuances from ripe Pinot Noir. Long lees ageing adds the meaty note the variety gives, and a faint tannic frame that the house links to its longevity.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

The cellar's oak raised top white, named after the Brgalotisce vineyard the family bought in 1923. Complex and rich, with mature fruit and dried herbs and a warm, mineral, harmonious palate carrying a hint of vanilla.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing

Pale yellow with the faintest orange cast and an abundant, persistent mousse. The house calls this its direct, decisive bottle: brut at the low end of the band, so the ripe apple acidity stays in front.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Romantic

Pronounced pink with a very persistent fine mousse. Pinot Noir gives width and texture rather than grip; Chardonnay carries the body, so the wine reads soft without losing its acidity.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

Deep yellow and glossy with a fine creamy mousse. With almost no dosage the acidity is exposed, Chardonnay giving body and Pinot Noir a velvet grip; the house calls it a stylistic speciality that sits close to a still wine.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Contemplative

The Augustus bottling is the estate's mature Cabernet Sauvignon, made only in the best years. Dark fruited and firmly built, with the warmth the family describe across their reds.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Easygoing

Medium gold yellow with straw tints. Intense and complex, with white flowers and apple giving way to wood and yeast notes; dry, fresh and harmonious with a long aftertaste. Served at 10 to 12 degrees.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Caroline Gilby MW describes a lively gold wine with yellow plum, peach and toasted hazelnut over creamy vanilla from French oak fermentation and ageing, closing long and mineral.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing

Brda Chardonnay in the domaine's Classic register: fresh, elegant and mineral rather than oak led, with orchard fruit and a saline close.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Wood raised Chardonnay in the Klasik line, structured but still fruit driven, with nut and orchard notes and a fresh close.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Seven years in French oak on a Bordeaux blend, harvested in the second half of October. Tertiary before release, with leather and graphite over resolved tannin.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Yellow and crystalline after years of ageing, with a persistent creamy mousse from very fine bubbles. The house's long aged cuvee: mature, piquant and complex, extra brut so the sugar never masks the acidity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing

Dolfo's bottle fermented Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from selected Ceglo plots, made on indigenous yeast for the base wine and served by the estate at 4 degrees.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing

Straw yellow with numerous fine persistent bubbles. Carga build the blanc de blancs on Beli Pinot, a champagne variety that rarely appears alone, and the result is fruity, fresh and light with a soft mineral edge.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Funky

Fourteen days on the skins in a wooden tino and twenty months in cask. Straw yellow going gold, very ripe white fruit, faintly salty, with a very long close.

Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative

Ruby and dense, a sweet Merlot from overripe fruit. Concentrated berry and hibiscus aromatics, caramel and liquorice on the palate, with tannin keeping the sweetness in check.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Easygoing

Sauvignonasse pressed straight off the skins and given two years in tank, which Reja uses in place of oak to build texture. Fuller than the usual reading of the variety.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

The Fojana site bottled on its own. Edi Simcic treats the Single Vineyard wines as the most direct reading of a plot; this is the firmer, more mineral face of the estate's Rebula.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Lively golden yellow with a pronounced varietal nose of lemon peel, ripe white fruit and meadow flowers. Elegant freshness and minerality with a clean finish.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Easygoing

Golden yellow from a deliberately late harvest, with a ripe nose of melon, banana and almond over hay and dried flowers. Elegant framed, with a pronounced mineral note.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Easygoing

Golden yellow with green tints. Sauvignonasse from the Gredic site, full flavoured and warm, with a long close.

Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Funky · Savoury

Bright intense golden yellow, with an intense fine nose of Mediterranean blossom, citrus and white fruit. Dry, soft and mineral, with an intense taste and a very persistent finish.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Elegant

The cellar's top sparkling, four years on the lees and disgorged by hand. Named champion at Vino Slovenija Gornja Radgona in 2025 and awarded a bronze medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards the same year.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Funky · Contemplative

Ten months on the skins with nothing added. Gold with straw tints, macerated grape and candied citrus aromatics, lightly tannic and long.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold

The Kozana plot's Merlot, the red in Edi Simcic's Single Vineyard tier. Dark fruit and cocoa over a firm tannic frame.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Funky · Savoury

Klet Brda's skin contact blend, assembled by cellar winemaker Darinko Ribolica from three white varieties macerated separately. Richer, more structured and more tannic than the cellar's other whites.

Dessert · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative

The domaine's only sweet wine, from Rebula dried for seven months. Dried stone fruit and honey held upright by Rebula's acidity.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Savoury

The estate's five variety skin contact blend, thirty days on the skins and three years in barrel. Broad and honeyed with a tannic spine under it.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Funky

Clear amber with a dense texture. Eight months on the skins give cooked apple, quince and candied citrus over a herbal close, with a light tannic grip holding the freshness in place.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Funky · Refreshing

Reja's own note describes a luminous lemon colour with greenish reflections and a naturally unfiltered look, then citrus, herbs and a faint oriental spice over precise acidity and a supple medium frame.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium acidity · Refreshing · Savoury

Malvazija made in the estate's stripped back style, floral on the nose and saline on the palate, with the bitter almond close the variety gives near the coast.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Medium deep gold yellow. The cool microclimate of the narrow stream valley and the day to night temperature swing give a fruit, flower and herb bouquet, and the marl underneath gives the minerality.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing

Yellow green with golden hues. The estate's youngest sparkling, four years on the lees, with orchard fruit and gentle autolytic notes over a mineral finish. Residual sugar 3.5 g per litre.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Romantic

Pink with violet hues, led by Pinot Noir from a nearly thirty year old terraced vineyard. Red fruit and autolytic pastry notes over a fresh, balanced close. Residual sugar 5 g per litre.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Festive

Light gold with green hues. Five years on the lees, with honey and brioche over acacia and citrus and a mineral marl signature. Residual sugar 1 g per litre.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Old gold with yellow green hues. Eight years on the lees on a vintage cuvee, full bodied and elegant, with gentle bubbles and a very long finish. Residual sugar 3.5 g per litre.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Old gold with yellow hues, a special edition drawn from a perpetual reserve of nine vintages. Brut nature at one gram of residual sugar, intense and long on a mineral close.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Four years in French barrique on a single variety Merlot. Dark fruit gone savoury, with tobacco and cedar and firm resolved tannins.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Savoury

Deep crimson, with an intense fruit driven nose closing on gentle leather. Smooth and rounded on the palate with soft ripe tannins. The 2012 vintage took a gold medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Served at 14 to 18 degrees.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury

Caroline Gilby MW describes hand picked fruit from steep terraced sites giving a bright ruby wine with plum, blackberry and cocoa bean, velvety tannins and a long exit, drinkable now or held five to ten years.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Rustic

The estate reserves the Brjac name for a mature, long raised Merlot released only in the strongest vintages. Full, warm and firmly structured.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Elegant

Merlot from the Trobno Cru in the Opoka line, which the estate built from soil surveys and microclimate studies made between 2003 and 2005. Dark fruited, firm and long lived.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

A dry varietal Pikolit, gold with amber tints, raised two years in new acacia. Honeyed and warm on the nose but finished dry, with a creamy long close.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Refreshing

Crystalline golden yellow with a fine persistent bead. Ripe apple, mango and bergamot over bread crust and butter, completely dry, with a mineral signature running under the fruit.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Romantic

Pale pink with a copper cast and a fine persistent bead. Red berries and blood orange over pastry and almond, completely dry, closing on wild strawberry.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Four equal parts, three pressed straight and one macerated for six days before assembly. Three years of tank and bottle before release give a full, settled white.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Deep ruby, made only in the best years from a 90 percent Merlot blend at 15 percent alcohol. Concentrated plum and tobacco with firm tannins that the estate says give it its longevity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Movia's unmacerated Rebula: brilliant straw yellow with a gold cast, yellow orchard fruit on the nose, citrus and herbs on a mineral, medium bodied palate.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Contemplative

Thirty days on the skins in conical oak and two years in barrel. Amber and tannic, with dried stone fruit, orange peel and a saline close.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Savoury · Refreshing

The family describe their wines as mineral and warm, rounded and strong, and place Rebula in the complex rather than the easy tier. Firm, saline and built on the Brda marl.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Delicate lemon coloured, with a buttery note over yellow apple and a touch of dried herbs. Matjaz Cetrtic calls it an aperitif Rebula, and it is built that way: young, fresh and long.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Straw yellow with greenish tints. Clean and elegant on the nose, fresh and lively on the palate, with balanced acids, light mineral notes and a clean aftertaste. Served at 10 to 12 degrees.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Reja works with minimal intervention and no additives beyond a small amount of sulphur, so the wine reads as marl, terrace and vintage. Fresher and fruitier than the Gmajna bottlings, with deeper colour than the label suggests.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Medium intense golden yellow with a varietal nose of ripe yellow fruit, grapefruit and white blossom. The family describe a harmonious combination of ripe acidity, elegant body and rich minerality.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Caroline Gilby MW, writing for the cellar, describes fruit from the best terraced sites fermented on the skins in large oak, giving a complex nose of toast, honey, candied peel and chamomile over a salty mineral base.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Funky · Contemplative

Deep gold on the edge of orange, the estate's uncompromising natural bottling. A full year on the skins in cask gives dried fruit, spice and a firm textural grip.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Light yellow with golden hues. Medot's still Rebula, rich and harmonious, with the salinity and mineral cut the variety shows on Brda marl. Residual sugar 1 g per litre.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Light yellow with green hues. Medot ties the wine to the two halves of founder Zvonimir Simcic's career, the fresh wines he made at the Brda cellar and the older ones at the homestead. Residual sugar 0.5 g per litre.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Rebula in the Klasik register. Edi Simcic describes these as structured wines that still carry plenty of fruit and varietal character, made as everyday table wines rather than show pieces.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Elegant · Savoury

Straw yellow with gold reflections. Fermented and raised a year in 500 litre casks on its fine lees, it is concentrated and mineral, closing on ripe fruit and basil.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

The estate's entry Rebula, pressed off the skins. Marjan Simcic describes elegance, freshness and a distinct mineral character drawn from the Brda opoka.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

The Cru tier of the estate's Rebula: more vertical structure and complexity than the Classic, with ripe orchard fruit over a firm mineral spine.

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

The estate's Grand Cru Rebula from the Medana Jama plot. Marjan Simcic bases the Opoka line on ten metre soil surveys of each site; the wine is vertical, saline and built to age.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Straw yellow, with the meadow flower and fig aromatics Scurek describes on its own tech sheet. Full flavoured for a steel raised Rebula, with a clean fresh close.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Marko Skocaj bottles his whites bone dry, under two grams of residual sugar, with no attempt at false weight. This is the Rebula in that style: taut, mineral and citrus driven.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Medium gold yellow with a discreet nose of white blossom, citrus and almond. The family pre harvest the bunches destined for sparkling so only the best fruit stays on the vine for this bottling.

Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Funky · Savoury

Golden yellow, varietally clean and intense on the nose with elderflower, dried spice, hay and white pepper. Dry, strong and very mineral, with a serious upright frame and a persistent close.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant

Caroline Gilby MW writes of a green gold wine shaped by the meeting of warm Mediterranean air and cool Alpine wind, dynamic and fresh with balanced acidity and a long fade.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Funky

Copper toned Pinot Gris from fifteen days on the skins and two years in barrel. Nutty and dried fruited, with a firm textural grip.

Dry · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

Pinot Gris in Dolfo's bone dry house style, with orchard fruit and a saline close rather than the softness the variety often gets.

Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Glowing copper Pinot Gris from six days of cold skin contact. Ripe stone fruit and ginger on the nose, almond and pastry on a full, warm palate balanced by salinity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Savoury

Pinot Gris in the estate's everyday tier: rounder than the Rebula, orchard fruited, with a dry almond finish.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Old gold with copper reflections. A year on fine lees in oak gives caramel and butter over pear, and the estate flags the piquant salty aftertaste that defines it.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Fruity

Red berry fruit with the herbal note Cabernet Franc gives, and tannins the producer describes as softer. Fresh and balanced at 13 percent.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing

Fresh and aromatic with floral and fruit notes, and soft and balanced on the tongue in the producer's own description. The lowest alcohol white in the range at 12.5 percent.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing

Damjan Princic describes a light wine with lively acidity and gentle citrus, apple and white flower notes. Refreshing and strongly mineral, at 13 percent.

Medium Sweet · Medium-bodied · High acidity · Fruity · Easygoing

Fragrant and inviting, with intense muscat, tropical fruit and flower aromatics. Sweet on the palate but kept fresh, at 11.5 percent.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury

The heavyweight of the Skrje whites at 15 percent, with ripe pear and melon over a light floral note, soft on the palate and very long.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium acidity · Savoury · Elegant

Straw yellow with gold tints. One of the two blends the family names as its own signature, oak raised but still fresh, and finishing long.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Ruby with garnet tints. The red half of the Stara Brajda pair, with Refosk lending acidity to the Bordeaux varieties and eighteen days on the skins giving grip.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Very dark and almost opaque ruby with carmine at the rim. Bjana's only still wine and its most serious bottling, silky and full with settled acidity under the tannin.

Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Bold

Translucent ruby Merlot and Cabernet blend from the Turno plot at Ceglo. Ripe black fruit and sweet spice, velvety tannins that dry the mouth quickly, a chocolate hint at the close.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Ruby with garnet tints. Three years in new oak on a Merlot led blend gives ripe red fruit, spice and tobacco with firm ripe tannins and a long elegant close.

Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative

Movia's top white blend, bright gold and dense, ripe orchard and tropical fruit over almond and butter, closing on rosemary and basil.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative

Ruby with a translucent rim and dense legs. Dark cherry and plum wound through violet and rose, then smoke, cedar and leather over a velvety tannic grip.