This is what good wine from the Vitovska grape tastes like

Vitovska produces fresh white wines reminiscent of lime, hay, pear and sage. They can have fine, fresh acidity, which makes them easy to drink. You find them (only) on the Italian-Slovenian border.

Vitovska is fairly rare - certainly in our region you rarely find wines made from this grape. Barely thirty years ago it had almost died out. A handful of winemakers, such as the Italian Benjamin Zidarich, made an effort to save Vitovska from extinction. With success - around the Italian town of Trieste, in the Friuli wine region, it is now planted again on a reasonable scale. Research has shown that Vitovska must have arisen through a spontaneous crossing between Malvasia and Prosecco, both also well represented in the region.

Vitovska sounds more Slovenian than Italian. That's because the whole region used to be one wine region, without a border. The border was only drawn in the last century, after the Second World War. The wine culture has remained almost the same on both sides of the border.

There is also a Vitovska Grganja grape. It grows in the same region but is not related to Vitovska - which still causes confusion, even among winemakers themselves.