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Welcome to TMC\u2019s third wine guide, where we review 52 orange wines from 18 growers. The topic is close to my heart: I\u2019ve been visiting Gori\u0161ka Brda (aka the Slovenian Collio) regularly over the last 12 years. This region is Europe\u2019s beating heart of orange, and that\u2019s why you\u2019ll find so much space devoted to it in my book <\/span>Amber Revolution<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps that seems odd when you consider that so many of the pioneers and iconic estates – Gravner, Radikon, Dario Prin\u010di\u010d, Damijan Podversi\u010d or Paolo Vodopivec for example – are situated in Italy. But take another look at those names. Do they look Italian to you?<\/p>\n

These families are all culturally Slovenian, and Slovenian is the language spoken around the kitchen table. Collio and Brda were one region, until two world wars resulted in the nonsensical border that now snakes through the hills. The same goes for Karst and Carso. Even today, many estates featured here have border-straddling vineyards or wineries.<\/p>\n

TMC\u2019s first wine guide in 2025<\/a> covered orange wines from the Italian Collio. The hook was that all these wines might qualify for <\/span>the forthcoming DOC Collio classification<\/a>, expected to be finalised later this year. But it felt very artificial to exclude wines made just over the border.<\/span><\/p>\n

So this guide is the companion piece. As you can see from the map below, the Slovenian part of the region is a bit larger than the Italian part (which is the crescent shape that surrounds Brda). It\u2019s a tumble of steep hills and dramatic vineyard terraces, and the typical <\/span>opoka<\/em> (decomposed marl and flysch) soil also found over the border.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As explained in last week\u2019s newsletter<\/a>, this guide has a special twist: I visited every single participating winery over the last three weeks, and personally collected all the samples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every wine in this guide complied with this standard:<\/p>\n