Bruno Trapan is one of Istria's most distinctive voices in wine, and he came to it on his own terms. He doesn't come from a winemaking family, but since his first vintage in 2005 he hasn't stopped shaking the Croatian wine scene, building the operation from a garage to 12 hectares of organically farmed vineyards in Šišan, near Pula, in southern Istria.
His philosophy is to make wine with as little intervention as possible, close to where the grapes grow, and that restraint is exactly what lets the Malvazija do its strange and wonderful thing.
Ponente is named after the warm western wind that blows through Istria, and it's fresh, aromatic, and consistently more complex than it appears.
