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Two Beguiling White Wines from Slovenia

Two Beguiling White Wines from Slovenia

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Fredric Koeppel
Nov 16, 2019
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The Gönc winery -- pronounced "guntz," sort of -- traces its origins to 1936, when the grandfather of Peter Gene, the present owner, built a cellar and planted a vineyard in Dobrovnik, at the time part of Yugoslavia. After World War II, this grandfather moved to the town of Ptuj (the oldest recorded city in Slovenia), where he cleaned cellars for what i…

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