Winemaker Notes
Pair with meat or soup as starters, main dishes with truffles, grilled fish and poultry.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Wild minerally aromas with fresh herbs such as thyme. Flint. Lemon curd. Dried pineapple. Tight and focused with a racy finish. Phenolic, dry and intense. Dried fruits at the end. Drink or hold.
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Vinous
The 2021 Rebula Cru Selection is dark and herbal in the glass with flowery undergrowth, hints of ginger and green apple. It's racy and sleek with cooling acidity and mineral-tinged orchard fruits. Sweet inner florals form toward the close. It finishes with medium length, steely clean, leaving an herbal flourish to linger.
There are hundreds of white grape varieties grown throughout the world. Some are indigenous specialties capable of producing excellent single varietal wines. Each has its own distinct viticultural characteristics, as well as aroma and flavor profiles.
A picturesque, eastern European wine growing nation, Slovenia can claim one of the most ancient winemaking cultures in all of Europe. Its history dates back to the Celts and Illyrians tribes, well before the Romans had any influence on France, Spain or Germany. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that Slovenia developed a more refined, private-sector wine industry.
Today it is a powerful source of some of the industry’s most important orange wines (whites made with extended skin contact); furthermore, fully three quarters of the country’s wine production is white.
Slovenian weather is continental with hot summers and cold, wet winters. It is divided into three wine regions: Podravje in Slovenia’s northeast; Primorska in its west, close to Italy; and Posavje in its southeast. These are further divided to nine wine districts.