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People can love their land in many ways. However, Josko Gravner only knows one way – his way of life. This way is characterized by the pursuit of a plausible truth: a truth which originates from the land and – through its cycles, its transformations, its inhabitants, its fruits and the work of the people – is turned into something more and better than the mere sum of all these factors.

A way of life which embraces all the aspects of nature and takes the best of it, even in unfavorable conditions. Nature offers everything we need. Our only task is to guide it, look after it and, when time is right, put ourselves at its service. Most importantly, we need to resist the urge of intervening, changing, cutting, building: sometimes nature requires time, silence, inactivity.

The people who want to take part in this process and be equal among equals, albeit with a greater responsibility, know exactly when the only thing to do is wait for every stage in the life cycle to be completed. To let the vine cycle come full circle year after year, calmly.

Calm is what we need to live through the seasons and face hardships, to watch the time go by, knowing that this is the right thing to do for the wine that's waiting. Calm allows us to accept losing part of the harvest so that what is left is of the highest quality. Calm makes it possible to put off the harvest until the very last day.

In my life I have tried out any kind of what industry would call the “latest technology” in my cellar. I was young and enthusiastic and that's why the first disagreements with my father arose. My motto was “quantity and quality”. In order to get there I thought I needed everything that can be found in a cellar nowadays, be it small or large.
Seeing my enthusiasm and my tendency to overdo it, my dad would smile, hoping that sooner or later I would go back on my steps. And that's what I did. Little by little I started getting rid of all the extra equipment I had bought, starting with steel wine tanks and ending with barrique barrels. I don't think it is possible that, over the last few decades, five thousand years of winemaking history have been erased so easily. This is my cellar. There is no modern technology or special effects here. This is a space where amphorae from the Caucasus are gently cradled by my land. I love this place because it is simple and functional.