ABOUT US

The wine you drink carries the story of a land wherefrom a vine originated, of Sun pouring onto the grains, of a climate giving it smell and of an arm of a man giving it a taste. The wines we present originate from Župa, a small mild valley fringed with the Mountain Goc slopes on the north and Kopaonik from south as well as the Mountain Zeljin, its Protector, from the west. Production of grape and wine commenced at the time Romans had arrived to this region. The first Serbian evidence on wine production in Župa is in the Charter of Stefan Nemanja from the twelfth century by which he gave Župa cellars and vineyards to the Monastery of Studenica.

Carried by stormy events the Ivanović family settled in Kozetin (today Aleksandrovac) in 1814. From that time on the Ivanović generations dealt with grape and wine production. On his return from the First World War in 1919, Dragoslav I. Ivanovic established wine-brandy workshop. This founded company grew very fast and in 1939 and 1940 it reached wine production of 500,000 liters. After the Second World War it stagnated due to the authorities decisions.

In 1996, his grandson Dragoslav I. Ivanović returns to Župa and takes out old grandfather's prescriptions from dusty drawers and renews the family tradition. Wine has the power to bind the people; by a strange destiny game love for wine and tradition gathered, in 2002 four friends from France and Italy (Emmanuel Koenig, Cyrille Bongiraud and Lorenzo Maini) and a Serb (Dragoslav Ivanović) striving to connect famous Burgundy wine culture with one that is cherished in Župa for centuries. With minimum interference in natural processes during the grape processing and fermentation, the wine is produced in true and traditional way. It holds all love and care we invested in vineyard and cellar during years.