Rovigno 2016 - Roxanich

Wine

Rovigno 2016 - Roxanich

Producer: Roxanich
Region: Croatia (Istria)
Grape varieties: Malvoisie, Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay
Color: White
Quantity: 75cl

The tannins of this Croatian wine are lively and soft, tickling the palate. The aftertaste is sweet, fresh, and spectacularly long-lasting—like a memory of Istria's most beloved town! The aromatic Pinot Blanc blends with the structure of Chardonnay and the sweetness of Malvasia—a beautiful blend!

His fame extends far beyond his idyllic homeland on Croatia's Istrian peninsula. 53-year-old Mladen Rožanić is the international figurehead of the orange wine movement, which has been shaking up the wine world for some time. Today, orange wines are all the rage, and for this reason, he has decided to move away from this concept. "Trends are always very vague. That's why I prefer to call my wines long-maceration wines or simply primitive wines," he explains. It's no coincidence that the notion of time is present in the first term. Indeed, Rožanić refuses to use modern winemaking techniques to accelerate the aging of his wines. He takes the opposite approach and gives his wines as much time as necessary to balance themselves. "Patience is a fantastic technique," he announces. His wines are aged for between three and a half and five years in large 3,800-liter French or Slavonic oak barrels, with a minimal dose of sulfur (nine to eleven milligrams of free SO2 per liter) before being bottled. This long process gives them a certain stability, but above all, it allows them to best express their own character. Mladen Rožanić comes from a Venetian-Croatian dynasty named "Roxanich," after whom he named his winery. The son of a naval engineer and university professor, he grew up in Opatija, a port city in Istria.

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