This recognition holds particular significance for us, as it comes from an environment that shares our values: sustainability, respect for nature, local identity, and wine as a cultural product.

What is the Slow Wine Guide?

The Slow Wine Guide is produced under the auspices of the Slow Food movement and is considered one of the most esteemed wine guides in Italy. Its unique characteristic is that it doesn't rate wines with points, but holistically – through the story of the winery, vineyards, people, and landscape.

The core principle of Slow Wine: Wine must be good, clean and fair.

Commissions are assessing:

• Method of cultivation and vinification
• respect for the terroir
• The sustainability of viticulture
• Relationship to the environment and community
• authenticity of a wine-growing region

Slow Wine is therefore a guide about wine, regions and philosophy, not even for a glass of wine.

Slow Wine covers the borders of Italy

The guide today also includes cross-border wine regions:

• Slovenian Istria
• Kras
• Vipava Valley
• Goriška Brda

For Italian wine lovers, sommeliers and members of the Slow Food movement, Slow Wine is often a guide in their decisions:

• Where to go on a wine trip
• Which cellars to visit
• What wines to look for in wine shops

The ranking therefore also means major promotional and tourist opportunity.

Why is this recognition so important to us?

Slow Wine doesn't reward size or trends. It rewards:

• Time
• Patience
• land registry
• Authenticity

These are the values that we live every day at Domačija Butul – in the vineyard, in the cellar, and when working with guests.

Your listing in the guide is for us:

• acknowledgement of the path taken
• Stimulus for the future
• the opportunity to share our story more widely