Marof
Between Mačkovci and the rolling hills of Goričko in Slovenia, Marof speaks for a landscape that long remained outside the usual wine maps. More than a century ago, the Szapáry counts made fine wine on this very site; later, distance, politics and economics left the region almost untouched. Entrepreneur Stane Polanič revived that sleeping potential, the first Marof bottles appeared in 2007, and in 2009 a new cellar opened beside the restored manor.The terroir is continental with a Pannonian pulse: dry sunny autumns, cool nights and soils of quartz gravel, sandy clay, marl, limestone seams and volcanic basalt tuff. Across the single vineyards Mačkovci, Kramarovci and Bodonci, Blaufränkisch, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Sylvaner and Welschriesling grow between 280 and 350 metres. Marof farms ecologically and keeps cellar work close to tradition, trusting natural processes, careful selection and minimal intervention over excessive technique.
