The producers and wines of Brda and Collio

Cypress trees

The second, incredibly comprehensive part of a report from the Italian-Slovenian border, marked in this picture only by the cypress trees. See also There's gold in them thar hills for much more on the Rebula grape, the Slovenian region of Brda and for notes on 13 wines that well represent the potential and diversity of the grape on both sides of the border. 

The seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine map of western Slovenia and eastern Friuli-Venezia Giulia shows the appellations of Goriška Brda (pronunciation here), or just Brda, and Collio, sometimes given...