Location: the town of Velké Bílovice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Owner & winemaker: Milan Nestarec and his family

Vineyard area: 24 hectares (= 60 acres), estate-owned

Vineyard management: organic certified (since 2022, practicing since 2008), regenerative agriculture 

Soils: mainly loess and clay, some sandy plots

Main varieties: Gruner Veltliner, Neuburger, Pinot Blanc, Muller Thurgau for the whites; Blaufrankisch, Pinot Noir for the reds

Annual production (approx.): 75,000 bottles

Winemaking: manual harvest, sorting table, wild yeast only. Mostly classic although gentle maceration for the reds, the whites get a varying, but usually quite small, degree of short skin contact. No fining, no filter, little to no sulfur.

The vineyards and cellar switched to organic and low intervention in late 2008, inspired by Milan’s multiple encounters with natural winemakers at home and abroad. The current focus of the winery is to go to great lengths to care for old vineyards and keep the energy in the bottle.