ALL CHANGES OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS CAME FROM THE WEST
Matjaž Lemut is the head of the Tilia Estate, which focuses on pinots, noir and gris, which led the Potoče cellar in the Vipava Valley to be known as the House of Pinots. He is considered to be one of the greatest experts among his wine-growing colleagues. He has been passing on his knowledge to students of the University of Nova Gorica, where he has been giving lectures about the basics of wine-growing technology. For more than 20 years he has also been giving lectures on oenography at seminars of the Sommelier Society of Slovenia, primarily an introduction to wines of the wine-growing regions. With him, we discussed the characteristics of the Primorska wine-growing region, its development and the diversity of the four districts that compose it.
"The land of Primorska consists of more than a third of Slovenian wine-growing areas and represents more than a half of the market share. All the changes that happened in Slovenia over the last 20 years, came from the West, namely from the Primorska region. This happened in parallel with the development of Mediterranean cuisine," says Lemut.
