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Vinarstvo in sadjarstvo Vinag Trg svobode 3 2000 Maribor phone: +386 62 224-161 fax: +386 62 224-455 |
Vinag is the largest winery of the Podravje region: the yield of their three hundred hectares (741 acres) of vineyards suffices for an average annual production of 2.4 million liters (634,080 gallons) of wine. Must for a further one million liters is purchased from contract growers. Vinag makes only white wines, fermented and matured in one of the largest classical cellars in Europe. Vinag's "Wine Tabernacle" under the very center of Maribor has a capacity of seven million liters (1.85 million gallons), five million liters (1.3 million gallons) of which is aged oak barrels.
Vinag's oenologists are famous for their high-quality varietal wines grown on selected sites: Renski Rizling from Piramida, Sauvignon from Meranovo, Sivi Pinot (Rulandec) from Meljski Hrib, Kerner from SveŸina, and Traminec from Kresnica. All of these wines are extremely aromatic with a rich varietal bouquet and rather abundant acids - all of which is a characteristic mark of wines suitable for archiving. The best white varieties of the Maribor area - Renski Rizling, Laçki Rizling, Sauvignon, and Traminec - are blended to produce MariborŸan, a fragrant wine of high-quality range.
The Vinag cellar regularly produces wines of special quality: late harvest, izbor, suhi jagodni izbor, and Ice wines. Their regular-harvest and special-quality wines have won a large number of awards at wine fairs in Slovenia and abroad.
Vinag maintains a large wine archive, currently storing some 400,000 bottles. This is the only archive in Slovenia that has samples of all post-World War II vintages and one of the few to offer a wide selection of archived wines on regular sale.
The best Vinag vintages are 1976, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1993.
