“Often said, but very true, all great wine starts in the vineyard. It is truly all about place in combination with the highest quality fruit and letting the varietal and regional typicity of the wine shine through from vineyard to glass. We allow the wines to develop on their own with little intervention, not to manipulate the wines inherent personality.”

 »Its not exactly proved how far in past our history of a family winegrowing goes, but we own the oldest cellar in Vipava valley from 1683. When modern times came we followed the main politics of Vipava winegrowing and we transported all grapes to the main cellar. The big break came 2009 when I finished Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana. We canceled the contract with the main cellar and stepped on our own path. Following we registered the trademark »Cultus«. While this time we renovated our vineyards with a low yield system (Mono Guyot) in an old fashioned way. Today we have 4 white (Pinot Blanc, Zelen, Welschriesling and Malvasia istriana) and 3 red (Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Franc) varieties. Zelen is an autochthonous plants from this region and they were first mentioned in the books around 14th century.« Matej Žvanut »

We are small family winemakers with 4 ha of vineyard. Most of the work is done by hand without big machinery. The vineyards are separated in different plots, where generations of people before us have been growing plants. We are strictly committed to our way, our wine come as they are, with no big intervention.«

»We love our soil and biodiversity, we see our vineyards as a factory where everything is made, no big procedure later in the cellar. Carefully with a lot of care, hard work and selection through the year we pick up full matured grapes in the harvest time, later in the cellar with less touch as possible we follow nature idea of wine.«