What is then the characteristics of vranec? It is certainly a grape (and a wine) with its own personality. Sometimes, the country promoters label it as “the black stallion”. I’m not sure what that is supposed to mean in terms of wine, so I’d rather leave that to the side. Typically, it makes very dark, well-structured wines with lots of tannins and aromas of dark fruit, violets, and sometimes dark red flowers, but it varies a lot. To explain […]