Price: cca 80 kn
Roki’s is certainly not the only Vugava to be called Bugava. It is a Vis tradition and such is Roki’s Bugava. Wines they used to make… Characteristic. Different. Not much care for market terms and bending to adopted taste and superficiality.
I cannot remember when I last opened Roki’s Bugava, but this one seems to be on the level of 2012. Which was genial.
Basil and sage.
The significance of the mention tradition not only in winemaking but also in wine valorisation. This wine is older than the differences of a safe zone of uniformed mediocrity of market designed conventions on one side and emphasised explicit extremism for the sake of extremism of the orange revolution on the other.
Strong and rock-hard.
Developed fully into the dry expression of Vis (the vines are grown in Plisko valley as I am informed) with extract quality that dazzles with lunatic aroma. Full ripeness of every berry that left its soul in this wine.
Unfathomable complexity. Banal to connoisseurs, but worth mention for others, this is not a wine of quick sips. This is an essence that needs to be waited for, not opening at the same time the cork frees the wine, which needs air and balancing with the ambient temperature.
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