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Naboso won't release Doma until it's ready, which usually means another two years in bottle. The version you're drinking now was first planned in the vineyard in 2023, and has been patiently developing in a cellar older than Slovakia itself. That patience is not an affectation. It's the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoma is what Naboso tastes like when nobody's watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINEMAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour grape varieties fermented separately, 14 days on skins with stems in open 500–750L vats. Pressed, aged 12 months in neutral acacia and oak on lees. Full malolactic. Blended into tank, bottled by gravity. 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The style is called Ryšak, which translates roughly as \"the rusty one\" — a traditional Central European field blend that was once common across Slovakia, Hungary, and Moravia, and then quietly disappeared when modernisation decided efficiency mattered more than flavour. Naboso's version is one of the best arguments for why it never should have gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalf the Blaufränkisch goes through carbonic maceration in a tank already full of direct-pressed Riesling and destemmed Grüner Veltliner juice. What comes out is a wine that has no right to be this fresh, this bright, this easy — and yet is also unmistakably serious. Drink it chilled. Drink it with friends. That's the whole point of Spolu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINEMAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemi-carbonic: 50% Blaufränkisch undergoes carbonic maceration in direct-pressed Riesling and destemmed Grüner Veltliner juice. 2 weeks in 500–750L open vats. 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Labyrint II. is 100% Grüner Veltliner from Naboso's granite-and-sand slopes in Svätý Jur — the same geological backbone that runs under Burgenland just across the border, expressed here with a cooler, more mineral precision. Overnight maceration, slow press, a full year in neutral oak and acacia on fine lees. Limited production. Each vintage different, each one only released when it's ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe label was made by Marija Reikalas — a Lithuanian artist based in Lisbon whose bold, high-contrast graphic style is as distinctive as the wine it wraps around. Bold lines, positive-negative space, imagery rooted in nature. You'll recognise her work before you know her name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINEMAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Grüner Veltliner from granite-and-sand soils, Svätý Jur. Overnight maceration, gentle pressing. 12 months in 225–600L neutral oak and acacia on fine lees. No skin contact. 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A long, hot summer pushed the Blaufränkisch to 14% alcohol — numbers that would make most natural winemakers nervous. Naboso's answer was carbonic maceration: whole bunches fermented at outdoor temperature, preserving the fresh red-fruit character and that impossible crunch. For the first time, Alibernet joins the blend — a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon and Aleatico that pushes the colour deeper and adds a layer of dark fruit to the Blaufränkisch backbone. André, a local cross of Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent, brings its own floral note. Three grapes, one vineyard philosophy, one very good year for people who know how to handle heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThink Beaujolais energy. Carpathian soul. Serve chilled and don't overthink it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINEMAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhole bunch fermentation, outdoor temperature, 8 days in 500–750L vats. Destemmed, pressed, fermented in 225L and 500L neutral oak. 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Nadja and Andrej — she from Germany, having found wine on an Austrian vineyard; he a Slovak winemaker with a decade of quiet, unglamorous experience — met and came back to his home village of Svätý Jur to build something together. Their first sparkling release took its name from what it does in the glass: bright top notes, a gentle fizz, a wine that performs. Opera I. leans into Moravian Muscat's aromatic lift, balanced by the greener structure of Müller-Thurgau, grown on the granite and sandy soils of the Little Carpathians. Made by the traditional method — the same patient process behind Champagne, just without the name rights — it's bottled bone-dry, Brut Nature, with zero dosage. Nothing added to soften it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINEMAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base wine is made from direct-pressed Moravian Muscat and Müller-Thurgau, fermented in stainless steel with a completed malolactic fermentation for roundness. 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