Rebula 2021

In Brda, the Ribolla is mentioned for the first time in our village Snežeče. 'The Briški zbornik' quotes a sales contract Cod. R 80, from which we can see that on May 27, 1336, Ancil from Snežeče sold to Henrik from Rittersberg for eight marks one tenth of his vineyards. Each year those vineyards produced six buckets of Ribolla. An older source mentions that on December 31, 1323, Valter (Ancil’s father from Snežeče), sold his vineyards in Snežeče (DOBUJE) as well. Most likely, those vineyards were on the same slopes around the church of Marija Snežna, where our vineyards of Ribolla are now located.

Ribolla grapes are grown in vineyards which are 11 to 34 years old. The hand-picked grapes are left to macerate for 12 hours, pressed and then fermented in inox containers, where the wine remains on fine yeast until April. The moving and subsequent maturation in inox tanks follows, where the wine then waits for bottling.