Jakot | Ussai

TYPE: white
GRAPE VARIETY: sauvignon 100%
REGION OF ORIGIN: Slovenia, Vipava Valley
AGEING POTENTIAL: 3 years
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 10-12° C
GLASS: wide glass for white wine
ALCOHOL: 13% vol.
SIZE: 75 cl

THE WINE

TECHNICAL SPECIFICS

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NOTES FROM OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 medium golden yellow with greenish highlights;

👃🏻the nose is youthful, varietal, with dried herbs, apricots and other ripe yellow fruits, beautifully varied and inviting;

👄 the palate is dry, slightly stronger, with a nice intensity and length. The aftertaste is of medium length and pleasant;

FOOD PAIRING

The Sauvignon grown in Slovenia has a broad, herbaceous character with great savouriness. It favours dishes with a medium structure and body, with hints of fat.
It is excellent with delicate first courses, shellfish, fish, mature goat cheese and cream cheese.

REFINING

This pure Sauvignon is grown in the hills of the Vipava Valley.
The variety of soils allows a clear complexity and high quality in the glass. Vinified in steel containers, where it undergoes alcoholic fermentation at a controlled temperature. As well as vinification, refinement is also carried out in steel.

YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR...

its persistence and great pleasantness.

ORIGIN

TERROIR

We are in the Vipava Valley in Slovenia, which produces exceptional whites and reds, elegant and harmonious, with a rich bouquet.
The characters of the wines reveal an unmistakable trace of historic winemaking tradition, infused with a dash of contemporary approach from the younger generation.
Natural agriculture is a cornerstone of the region, and its most progressive winegrowers produce wines from grapes grown organically according to biodynamic principles. 

The Vipava Valley wine district is best known for its white grape varieties and the quality white blend called vipavec. The most important and most traditional white wine is ribolla gialla. Other popular varieties include sauvignon blanc, malvasia, welschriesling, chardonnay and pinot blanc. 

A special place among the white varieties belongs to the autochthonous zelen, whose producers are united in the Zelen Consortium. In some vineyards, pinot gris, muscat blanc, petit grains and sauvignonasse are also cultivated. Red wines are not very common in the Vipava Valley, but those that are produced achieve surprising results. The predominant variety here is merlot, an essential base for superior red blends, with cabernet sauvignon. barbera, refosco and pinot noir are also grown. 

WINERY

A family-run Črniče winery (a so-called 'boutique winery'), which produces very few wines near Ljubljana. The Ušaj family produces natural, predominantly white wines such as Ribolla and Malvasia. But Ušaj is also known for its red wines such as Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
The whole area, the Vipava Valley (in Goriška Brda), is known for two grapes in particular: pinela and zelen. The production of bottles is very small because it is based on only 7 hectares of vines.