Vino Et Spiritus - About Us
 he wine you drink tells the story of a the land from whence the vine originated, of the Sun pouring onto the grapes, of a climate giving it smell and of the hand of a man giving it taste. The wines we present originate from Župa, a small mild valley fringed on the slopes of the Mountains; Goč from the north; Kopaonik from the south as well as Zeljin, its Protector, from the west. The Production of grapes and wine commenced when the Romans arrived to this region. The first Serbian evidence on wine production in Župa is in the Charter of King Stefan Nemanja from the twelfth century by which he gave the Monastery of Studenica cellars and vineyards. Brought by stormy events the Ivanović family settled in Kozetin (today Aleksandrovac) in  1814 and since then many generations of the Ivanović family have dealt with grape and wine production. On his return from the First World War in 1919, Dragoslav I. Ivanović established a wine and brandy workshop. His 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 in dusty drawers finds his grandfather's old recipes and renews the family tradition. Wine has the power to bind people; in a strange twist of faith, love for wine and tradition brought together, in 2002 three friends from France and Italy (Emmanuel Koenig, Cyrille Bongiraud and Lorenzo Maini) and a Serb (Dragoslav Ivanović) striving to connect the famous Burgundian wine culture with the one nurtured in Župa for centuries. With minimal intervention in natural processes during the grape processing and fermentation, the wine is produced in the true and traditional way. It holds all the love and care we invested in vineyard and cellar during the year. |