Berblut

Just over the Italian border from Collio sits Goriška Brda, Slovenia's most celebrated wine region. "Brda" simply means "hills," and because the slopes erode easily, most vineyards here are terraced.

Brda's climate combines Alpine freshness with Mediterranean warmth, and its hallmark minerality comes from a particular marl and flysch soil called opoka. It's the same terroir as Italian Collio, where the soil is called ponca.

Rebula (Ribolla Gialla in Italy) is Brda's signature grape, with deep roots here: its first recorded mention appears in a 1336 sale agreement from the Brda village of Višnjevik. Today, it accounts for around a quarter of the region's wine production.

Berblut's Rebulas are about precision and stone. James Suckling's recent Brda report named Berblut a new estate already attracting attention for its highly mineral rebulas. Their 2024 Ribolla from the Kalehe vineyard in Quisca showed lime zest, grapefruit, white pepper, and stony aromas — light-bodied but savory, and more focused and elegant than earlier releases. (James Suckling’s words here)

Berblut is a young estate working with Brda's oldest grape on some of the most distinctive soils in Central Europe.