{"title":"Best sellers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tga-za-jug","title":"T'ga za Jug","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one is semi-dry, so there is a real touch of sweetness in it. That goes first because it matters. Overripe sour cherry and raspberry, a little raisin, generous and soft, with a long finish that leans toward molasses and treacle. If you find most reds too sharp, this is the one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn easy, comforting pour for the end of the evening, when the plates are cleared and nobody wants to move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sweetness is not added. The fruit is picked late and grown between 350 and 550 metres, and altitude plus a late harvest is what concentrates the sugar. It ferments in concrete and then spends a year in wooden barrels. It is by a long way the biggest wine the winery makes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew wines are named after a poem. This one is. T'ga za Jug means longing for the south, after Konstantin Miladinov, and the wine was created in 1973 for the Struga Poetry Evenings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.8em 0 0;padding:1.1em 0 0;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.14);\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 0.5em;font-size:0.8em;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.7;\"\u003eAlso in our cases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eT'ga za Jug is in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-introduction\"\u003eThe Introduction\u003c\/a\u003e, £112, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-reds\"\u003eThe Reds\u003c\/a\u003e, £125, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-table\"\u003eThe Table\u003c\/a\u003e, £159.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tikveš Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58744734187865,"sku":"TL-RED-TGA-24","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1056\/7647\/2665\/files\/tikves-tg-za-jug-square.jpg?v=1786790889"},{"product_id":"vranec-luda-mara","title":"Vranec Luda Mara","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf Malbec is your usual, start here. Same dark weight, drier, with more grip. Blackberry and black cherry first, then blueberry, pomegranate and dried herbs. The tannins are firm and the finish is long. It is warm and dark and makes no apology for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a wine for food with char on it. Grilled meat, roast lamb, veal, pork, ripe cheeses. Open it when the grill is going or the oven has been on all afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePicked by hand into chilled crates, chilled again before fermenting, then two weeks on the skins in concrete and a year's rest before release. Concrete rather than oak is deliberate. What you taste is the fruit and the tannin, not the barrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVranec means black stallion, and the wine drinks like the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.8em 0 0;padding:1.1em 0 0;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.14);\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 0.5em;font-size:0.8em;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.7;\"\u003eAlso in our cases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eVranec Luda Mara is in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-reds\"\u003eThe Reds\u003c\/a\u003e, £125, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-collector\"\u003eThe Collector\u003c\/a\u003e, £177.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tikveš Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58744734253401,"sku":"TL-RED-VRA-22","price":18.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1056\/7647\/2665\/files\/tikves-luda-mara-vranec-square.jpg?v=1786774154"},{"product_id":"babuna-red","title":"Babuna Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is Shiraz in the blend and you can taste it. Blackberry, cherry and baked plum first, then violet underneath. Dark and deep, but the acidity keeps it lively, and the finish turns to pomegranate and sour cherry and goes on for a while.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin:2.2em 0;padding:0 0 0 1.1em;border-left:2px solid #a64029;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 1em 0;line-height:1.65;\"\u003e“The nose is packed with ripe bramble fruit, blackberry, cherry and plum, lifted by fragrant violets and layered with leather, spice and a subtle savoury hint of iodine. The palate is rich but beautifully restrained, combining succulent dark and red berry fruit with refreshing acidity and fine, polished tannins that carry the wine to a long, vibrant finish.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 1.2em 0;line-height:1.65;\"\u003e“It’s a wine that already offers plenty of enjoyment now, but has the balance and structure to develop gracefully over the next five years.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 0.4em;font-size:0.8em;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.7;\"\u003ePeter McCombie MW\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;font-size:0.85em;line-height:1.5;opacity:0.7;\"\u003eOn Babuna Red as a wine. He did not name a vintage, so read it as the house style rather than a note on the bottle you are buying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA generous match at the table. Roast lamb, game, roasted vegetables, even salmon. The red for long dinners where the food keeps coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe chose it because it does two things at once. It has the weight of a winter red and the freshness of something much lighter. It ferments in concrete over three weeks and rests a year before release, in the old way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes from the Babuna estate under Mount Klepa, off clay soil and thirty-five-year-old vines, in a vineyard that shares its ground with more than fifty plant species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.8em 0 0;padding:1.1em 0 0;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.14);\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 0.5em;font-size:0.8em;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.7;\"\u003eAlso in our cases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eBabuna Red is in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-reds\"\u003eThe Reds\u003c\/a\u003e, £125, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-collector\"\u003eThe Collector\u003c\/a\u003e, £177.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tikveš Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58744737857881,"sku":"TL-RED-BAB-23","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1056\/7647\/2665\/files\/tikves-babuna-red-square.jpg?v=1786789729"},{"product_id":"barovo-red","title":"Barovo Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt sits with the big oaked reds, Ribera and the Douro, not with the lighter stuff. Eighteen months in new French oak will do that. Dark fruit first, prune, sour cherry and blackberry, then vanilla and chocolate, with pepper, anise and a little cinnamon. The alcohol is high but it sits inside the wine. The finish is long and juicy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePour it with lamb or prime rib. It suits roast dinners and long evenings. Give it a big glass and a little air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is our flagship red. Grown and picked together off three hectares of volcanic rock, then two days of cold maceration and three weeks on the skins. It has the structure to lay down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Barovo parcels are small and climb to 700 metres at the foot of the Kozuf mountains, where fog and morning dew slow the fruit and hold its freshness. Tikveš has made wine since 1885.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.8em 0 0;padding:1.1em 0 0;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.14);\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 0.5em;font-size:0.8em;letter-spacing:0.09em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.7;\"\u003eAlso in our cases\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0;\"\u003eBarovo Red is in \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-reds\"\u003eThe Reds\u003c\/a\u003e, £125, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-table\"\u003eThe Table\u003c\/a\u003e, £159, and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-collector\"\u003eThe Collector\u003c\/a\u003e, £177, where it appears twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tikveš Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58744737956185,"sku":"TL-RED-BAR-21","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1056\/7647\/2665\/files\/tikves-barovo-red-square.jpg?v=1786788992"},{"product_id":"kumova-zolta","title":"Kumova Žolta","description":"\u003cp\u003ePale amber with a gold edge. It opens with white blossom, dried apricot and honeyed citrus, then vanilla, almond and a little toasted spice. The palate is smooth and round. Baked pear, orange peel, nougat. The finish is long and leaves you with vanilla pod, dried fig and toasted grain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrink it at room temperature and the fruit and the flowers come forward. Lightly chilled, it works as an aperitif. Use a tulip glass or a small white wine glass, and give it two or three minutes before you sip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is very good with aged sheep's cheese like kashkaval, roasted peppers, and ajvar or pindjur, the roasted pepper relishes eaten across the Balkans. Smoked and cured meats bring out the depth. Figs, walnuts and light nut puddings pick up the vanilla and the dried fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the golden one in the Kumova range, and the one to start with if you want to understand what oak does to rakija. The distillates rest in stainless steel and in casks half a century old. Those casks are too old to give colour any more. They give spice and softness instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistilled on the winery's heritage copper rectification column, a method borrowed from Armagnac. Distilled with fine lees and no preservatives, which is where the texture comes from. Blended by tasting, not by formula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLozova rakija, grape brandy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tikveš Winery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58775411097945,"sku":"TL-SPR-ZOL-70","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1056\/7647\/2665\/files\/tikves-kumova-zolta.jpg?v=1786788799"}],"url":"https:\/\/tikveslondon.uk\/collections\/best-sellers.oembed","provider":"Tikveš London","version":"1.0","type":"link"}