TASTING NOTES:
Nose: Mineral, saline, tropical fruit. Wet slate, limestone — especially after the rain, sea breeze; green apple, green mango (underripe), dried pineapple.

Palate: Lively and bright on the palate with lovely minerality and salinity that's persistent.

FOOD PAIRING RECOMMENDATION:
Mussels with white wine, garlic, parsley
or
Toasted bread with mushroom, garlic, parsley

ASHWIN'S REFLECTION:
Slavonia — a region in Croatia that has pretty much nothing to do with Slovenia other than being spelled similarly — was once the floor of an inland sea: the Pannonian Sea, which covered this part of Central Europe until about a million years ago. Plow the soils here and fossils still come up.

When the sea retreated, it exposed the volcanic rock beneath, which as it weathered, became the volcanic soil on which the vines sit today. This soil composition is what gives Graševina from this area its mineral and saline character. Graševina goes by many names in Central Europe, including Welschriesling, Olasrizling, Riesling Italico — none of which (confusingly enough) has anything to do with Riesling as we know it.