Terra Rossa 2011

Behind the Bottle

Tasting with Branko and Vasja Čotar is like taking a journey through the history of the Slovenian Karst — one of Europe’s greatest (and possibly most underrated) region for skin-contact and red wines today. Their history originates partly with the story of the old Soviet philosophy of agriculture, producing high yields to send across the entire union with very little attention to grape or soil health. Branko’s father first planted field blend vineyards in the mid 1970s in a time when the local growers ...