{"title":"Gravner","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the steep, wooded hills of Oslavia, a few meters from the Slovenian border, Josko Gravner rebuilt his cellar around clay vessels buried in the earth and, in doing so, reshaped how the world thinks about white wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gravner family bought a house and land in Oslavia in 1901 and began bottling wine commercially in 1973. Joško took over from his father in the early 1980s, at first making conventional blends. A 1987 trip to the United States left him disillusioned with modern winemaking, and after a devastating 1996 hailstorm destroyed most of his crop he turned to extended skin-contact maceration. A journey to Georgia led him to buy his first qvevri in 2000, and from 2001 his whites have fermented in clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/gravner\"\u003eGravner producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bianco-breg-orange-gravner-natural-wine","title":"Gravner Bianco Breg Orange 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eGravner Bianco Breg is a skin-contact natural wine crafted from a blend of Riesling Italico, Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon, and Chardonnay. Each grape variety is fermented separately before being blended and aged together. This wine exemplifies the Gravner approach with its extended maceration, use of wild yeasts, and lack of temperature control. Following extended cuvaison, the wine spends an additional five months in amphorae before aging for six years in large oak barrels. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, showcasing the pure expression of the grapes and terroir.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gravner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37955803807943,"sku":"GRAVBREG11C","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/gravner-bianco-breg-orange-natural-wine-primal-wine_bc81edb1-d91a-4974-bd83-8696677dbe6d.jpg?v=1780337436"},{"product_id":"ribolla-gialla-orange-gravner-natural-wine","title":"Gravner Ribolla Gialla Orange 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eGravner's Ribolla Gialla is a natural orange wine crafted entirely from indigenous Ribolla Gialla grapes. The winemaking process begins with fermentation in subterranean Georgian amphorae, where the juice undergoes extended skin contact and spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts, free from temperature regulation. Post-fermentation, the wine continues its journey with a five-month rest in amphorae, followed by a six-year maturation in large oak casks. It's then bottled in its pure state, without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gravner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37955935731911,"sku":"gravner-ribolla","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/gravner-bianco-breg-orange-natural-wine-primal-wine_4704ba85-c82e-46f6-951f-273f6c959b83.jpg?v=1780289860"},{"product_id":"rosso-gravner-natural-wine-primal-wine","title":"Rosso Gravner 2010","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosso Gravner is a blend of approximately 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon from vines planted in the early 1960s in Oslavia, a hamlet of roughly 640 people in the Collio Goriziano hills of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, less than 200 meters from the Slovenian border. The wine is labeled Venezia Giulia IGT because Gravner's winemaking does not conform to DOC Collio production rules. Soils are ponca, a layered marine marl and sandstone approximately 45 million years old that provides drainage and mineral complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grapes fermented on the skins in beeswax-lined Georgian qvevri — terracotta vessels holding between 1,300 and 2,400 liters — buried in the cellar floor for over four weeks. No selected yeasts, no temperature control, no additions beyond minimal sulfur. After fermentation the wine spent four years aging in large, well-used Slavonian oak barrels before being bottled without fining or filtration in September 2014 on a waning moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosso Gravner is now a discontinued wine. Josko Gravner phased out international varieties including Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon after 2012, redirecting the estate's focus entirely to indigenous grapes — Ribolla Gialla for whites and Pignolo for reds. The 2010 vintage is among the last produced under this label, making it a document of a specific and now-closed chapter at one of Italy's most influential estates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGravner farms 15 hectares of vines across three parcels — Runk in Italy (planted 1901), Hum and Dedno in Slovenia — following organic and biodynamic practices without Demeter certification. The estate produces between 22,000 and 30,000 bottles per year across all wines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gravner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37975405068487,"sku":"GRAVROSS10H","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/gravner-rosso-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1610062539"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/gravner.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}