SPOLU 2022

Spolu means "together" in Slovak — red and white grapes, grown on the same granite slopes, harvested and fermented side by side. The style is called Ryšak, "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.

Half 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.