SoHu
About
Tucked in the northeastern corner of Croatia, in the Croatian Danube region, right below the border of Hungary, lies Slavonija: one of Croatia’s most important winegrowing regions and the home of Croatia’s most important white grape: Graševina (aka Welschriesling).
Here, in the village of the Feričanci, the winery Feravino continues a long legacy of winemaking in the region, going back to the 13th century when Cistercian monks settled the area. The winery’s original cellar was built in 1804 and has evolved over multiple generations when Croats from northern Dalmatia began trading in this region and sharing their viticultural knowledge with the region. At this time the winery built a new cellar and focused on the indigenous Graševina grape, very prominently found around Central and Eastern Europe under many different names. (e.g. Welschriesling in Austria, Riesling Italico in Italy, and Olaszrizling in Hungary). This region boasts influence from the Danube river where grapes grow on rich volcanic and sandy soils, with white clay stones on slate and granite bedrock.
After Croatia’s independence from socialism, Feravino became an early private winery and in 2015, the winery merged with a local agriculture company, where a new direction with a quality focus began.
The SoHu wines were created to offer a fresh and expressive style of Slavonijan indigenous varietal that everyone can enjoy. The winery focuses predominantly on Graševina, as well as Frankovka (aka Blaufrankisch) as its red. The name SoHu (South of Hungary) is an ode to the cross-cultural influence this region embraces in Croatia near the border of Hungary.
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