Liam and Sinead Cabot hail from Ireland and have embarked on a remarkable wine making journey in the hills outside Kog in Slovenia. They have a 2 h/a estate and really work the vines by instinct and eschew the use of chemicals. While not organic, as they object to the damage caused by the use of copper, they manually work the vines, don't use pesticides or herbicides and encourage a wild cover crop. SO2 is used sparingly and applied to stabilise the wines, which are un-fined, at bottling. The Blaufrankisch vines are 11 years old, the grapes are gently destemmed and cooled before fermentation in open oak casks and then aged for a year in old oak barrels.
Organic viticulture
