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At Pleterje Charterhouse we cultivate 30 hectares of agricultural land. Within the monastery’s walls are fruit trees, vegetable garden and pastureland, while outside are vineyards, fields and meadows, and both we work in the most ecologically-friendly manner. We produce fruit, grapes, apple and pear saplings, raise sheep, bees and fish, make ecological means for the protection of plants (lime sulfur), produce wine from grapes, fruit juice and brandy from fruits.
As our vineyards and wine cellar are located in the
middle of the Dolenjska region, our basic wine is cviček. This is a
speciality of Slovenian wine as it is made from traditional kinds of
red and white wines, with a low degree of alcohol and an agreeable
acidity. Another tradition of Pleterje’s wine cellar is our mass
wine, a dry wine created from chardonnay, pinot gris, kerner and
welschriesling. In good years we also make high-quality variety
wines, predicate wines and sparkling wine.
You can order some of our wines and brandies online here.
Pear,
apple, plum and juniper berries create our natural brandies, which
are aged in Pleterje’s cellar in wooden casks and then bottled in
various sizes. Special among them is the Pleterje pear which grows
inside the bottle before being topped off pear brandy, and our
bitters, made up of 49 different herbs in a fruit brandy.
In the monastery
garden there are many beehives. Besides floral and chestnut honey,
we also produce pollen, propolis, a honey liqueur, mead (honey wine)
and beeswax candles.
Pleterje Spirit
Bee Products
