A sparkling Ribolla Gialla made in Europe where grapes from the Collio and from Brda unite to tell the story of a border region.

Although the two young winegrowers, Robert Princic from Giasbana-San Floriano, and Matjaz Cetrtic from Kojsko in Brda, live only a stone’s throw apart across the Italian-Slovenian border, they only met for the first time during a Wine Business Masters course at the MIB School of Management in Trieste. The exchange of views on the world of wine and approaches to wine marketing, but above all a history with its roots deep in the past and a shared culture inspired the two producers to create one of the very first examples in Europe of a cross-border wine, a wine which recounts a story of peoples and their lands and transmits a message of unity. So it was that Rebolium Sinefinis, a wine without borders, first saw the light, using the native variety that unites the two denominations of the Collio and the Brda, Ribolla Gialla/Rumena Rebula. Bringing together grapes sourced from vineyards in Italy and Slovenia and combining the know-how and the resources of the two wineries, Gradis’ciutta and Ferdinand, they created a traditional method sparkling wine which truly speaks of Europe.