Gravner

Rueda Wine Co. is the exclusive South African representative for Gravner.

Working with RWC since 2024.

In the hills above Gorizia, in sight of both the Julian Alps and the Adriatic, Joško Gravner’s family has made wine in the neighbouring villages of Hum and Oslavia for generations.

The region was long part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Collio Goriziano and Goriška Brda have, since being razed in the First World War, been traded between Italy, Nazi Germany, Yugoslavia, and Slovenia in the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War. This region is a place of ever-changing tides and rich history.

Gravner has moved away from international varieties to focus on Ribolla Gialla and Pignolo.

A highly acclaimed producer of technical, stylish Friulian wines early in his career, Joško Gravner underwent a crisis of faith in the mid-1990s.

The stories of his journeys deep into the Caucasus mountains and his encounters with millennia-old Georgian viticultural traditions are the stuff of legend in the world of orange wine. It is not an exaggeration to say that Gravner is among those who prevented millennia-old vinicultural practices from disappearing from his homeland.

The Gravner wines stand alongside the greatest, pioneering a revolution in the wine industry and inspiring thousands of winemakers around the world. They are long-aged, long-lived, deeply profound and human wines. Each sip takes one on an introspective journey. Gravner truly makes some of the most compelling and thought-provoking wines in the world.