2021
Bura
Plavac Mali
Named for the wind that scours these slopes clean each winter. Dark cherry and dried fig, with a saline edge that only the seaward rows give us.
Est. 1927
Estate Winery · Pelješac · Croatia
See the Range
The Range
We bottle only what the terraces give us. In a hard year the reserve stays in barrel, and in a generous one we make a little more rosé than we planned.
Named for the wind that scours these slopes clean each winter. Dark cherry and dried fig, with a saline edge that only the seaward rows give us.
Chalk and white peach, from the parcel where the topsoil runs out at forty centimetres. Fermented cool, then eight months on its lees.
Our steepest terraces, picked by hand in three passes. Twenty-two months in Slavonian oak and another two years lying in the cellar before release.
Four hours on skins, no longer. Wild strawberry, blood orange and a dry, stony finish. We make roughly three thousand bottles and they rarely see October.
The Estate
The terraces above Orebić were cut in the 1920s, one dry-stone wall at a time, because there was no flat ground to be had and the family wanted to make wine anyway. Most of those walls are still standing. We repair about sixty metres of them every winter.
What grows on them is mostly Plavac Mali, planted at 280 metres where the nights stay cool enough to hold acidity through a hot September. The Pošip sits lower and closer to the water, on the parcel we call Vapno — limestone — for the obvious reason.
We farm organically, though we have never bothered to certify it, and we pick everything by hand because a tractor cannot get up there in the first place.
My grandfather cut these terraces out of limestone with a crowbar and a mule. We have added degrees, better barrels and a proper cooling system since — but the wine still comes out of the stone, and the stone has not changed its mind about anything.
Visit
The cellar is open to visitors from April through October, by appointment. Everything is poured by someone who worked the harvest.
45 minutes · Daily
2.5 hours · Thu–Sun
Full day · September–October
From the Estate
Get in Touch
Put Grebena 14
20250 Orebić, Pelješac
Croatia
+385 20 719 400
[email protected]