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Draga

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Living Wine

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We, Living Wine, are a small team of friends who import and distribute wines we love to the U.S. market, from everyday wines to “grands vins”. We focus on small-scale terroir-driven artisan wines that are created using natural techniques, which honor the fruit, the terroir, as well as the art that occurs in the cellar. We like winemakers who care for quality rather than quantity and who grow organic grapes, follow biodynamic farming practices, and utilize the bare minimum of additives or intervention in their winemaking progress. Overall, we love wines that are alive!

Living Wine Imports and Distribute a Selection of Artisanal, Natural, Terroir-driven, Hand-Crafted Wines.

The Roxanich Draga brings all the best of the Pinot Blanc grape, naturally fermented with indigenous yeasts, macerated for two days, maintaining its originality and terroir footprint.

The noble straw yellow color of the wine carries divine flavors of quince, peaches, and lemon zest, with a notably smooth, long-lasting aftertaste.

Mladen Rožanić is another first-generation winemaker in our portfolio. He is a Swiss entrepreneur with strong ties to his native Istria, Croatia, where his wine adventure started about 30 years ago, founding the Roxanich winery. Today, he runs the winery with his six daughters whose names decorate the labels of some of the wines.

This unconventional, artisan estate started as a passion project, that involved into a very serious winery. Located in the town of Motovun, in the middle of the lush Istrian Penninsula, the winery crafts rare, long aged, premium, natural wines, from Western part of Istria, just across the North Adriatic from Venice.

The Roxanich cellar is located inside the hill, away from the coast and spans over nearly 10,000 square feet. The state of art cellar is built in four levels and each floor is dedicated to a certain part of the winemaking process. Vinification and maceration, aging, and archiving, are all done on separate levels, with the tasting room as the pinnacle, where one can immerse calmly and deeply into the whole universe of the Roxanich wine experience.

The estate vineyards are in the villages of Bušura and Bačva. The Roxanich winery uses organic and biodynamic principles, as they see as the only way to true quality and healthy wine. Vineyards are farmed in the traditional manner, with minimal use of technology and by carefully controlled yields. The total vineyard area is a little under 70 acres, but the production is limited to about 70,000 bottles a year, depending on the vintage.

Rožanić describes his wines as honest, but big. He gives them as much time as they need to harmonize on their own. “Patience is a fantastic cellar technique”, he says. “Because wines need time to find each other.” This stubbornly counters the modern notion that pushes “young” wines to the market. The wines are processed with minimum intervention, without additives and as naturally as the vintage allows.

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