2016 | Oštarija Rondo | Frankovic Cabernet Sauvignon

Aromas bring notes of scorched earth, sweet barrel spice, vanilla, graphite and dark cherry. Fruit and barrel play equal parts on the palate, both playing them well. The flavors are ripe, and the vintage's acidity ties it all together.

Producer Information

The long winemaking tradition of the Franković family has remained a constant for generations, stronger than attachment to the place, so even Josip Franković's love-motivated journey from central Istria to Buje did not threaten the love for the vine and passion for wine production instilled by his father. Moreover, the new place of life and the selection of land in the carefully chosen, unusually fertile location of Santa Lucia with a winning combination of limestone and clay, was the basis of a new wine story with old roots and stem, through which flows the experience of informal wisdom, formal agronomic education and the practice of leading large wine plants. And that the grape does not fall far from the vine, the younger continuation of the family also shows, which supports that expanding wine story, with internal involvement and selection of wine education . Another love of Josip Franković influenced the shaping of the empire as it is today. It is a passion for horses and riding that was inherited from his father and later developed further, a passion that, along with the vines, was also printed in the Franković wine logo and shaped into the name of some wines . Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the symbolism of the horse represents inner strength, vitality and overcoming life's obstacles, a symbolism that, in Josip's tour of the vineyard, among the nine future labels, ceases to be symbolism and becomes a complement to the life cooperation between man and nature.

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