{"id":22490,"date":"2022-01-21T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/?p=22490"},"modified":"2022-01-21T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:45:11","slug":"roxanich-wine-heritage-hotel-how-i-experienced-enlightenment-in-motovun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/en\/2022\/01\/roxanich-wine-heritage-hotel-how-i-experienced-enlightenment-in-motovun\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxanich Wine & Heritage Hotel – How I experienced enlightenment in Motovun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I organised an IBMC – International Business Meetup Club<\/strong><\/span> party to celebrate my Birthday. People from all over the world showed up, including the Premier League marketing director from London. She is not relevant to this story at all. I just brag about her being there so that everyone sees how influential I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the guests was Soraya, but not the starlet, but her namesake from the Netherlands, more precisely the hated city of The Hague. The villains will say “Soraya for the poor”, but she also has a Rolex on her wrist, although not a sponsored one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although we got wasted at the party like Keith Richards and Boris Johnson together, we decided in the morning to go on a trip to distant but friendly Istria, more precisely to Motovun in Roxanich winery\/hotel<\/strong><\/a><\/span>. We were joined by her friend Dirk who flew in from Ibiza just to attend my party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone gives me a hard time about \u201cplaying\u201d a tycoon while I don’t even own a car and meanwhile they repay the loan installments for their second-hand metal pets every month, all kinds of insurances, registration and maintenance costs\u2026 I don’t have those worries. When I need a car, I go to Carwiz and say, \u201cGive me the most expensive one! Give me this Passat automatic. \u201d Then I say to Soraya, \u201cOh nooo! I left my wallet at home. Can you handle the paperwork? \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Carwiz
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We turned up Country roads on the radio and set off. Soraya immediately got sick because she ate half a McDonald’s at the first gas station. I told her to save some room for truffles, but when you grow up in a country where the main specialty is stinky herring, Big Mac is your idea of superb gastronomy.<\/span><\/p>\n

We arrived at the Roxanich hotel\/winery just for lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich winery – Carwiz
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Roxanich hotel and winery
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While Soraya was writhing in GMO pain, her colleague Dirk and I enjoyed a Bo\u0161karin steak. Only the best meat for the Dear Leader! Let the poor and vegans eat celery \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Boskarin steak
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I would be lying if I said that we did not peek into a glass\u2026more like a bottle really.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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I wanted to take a nap after the Istrian baccalaureates, but Soraya said it was time to take photos. Nature and vineyards are just the background here. Pay attention to Soraya\u2019s figure. Unlike that other Soraya, my respective guest has 0% plastic in her strategic areas. One could say she is environmentally conscious.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Soraya
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Taking pictures without the Dear Leader, does not spark interest in any reader! <\/span>
\nVin Diesel for the poor, oil on canvas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Dear Leader Joe aka Vin Diesel for poor people
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Coming to the winery and not visiting their wine cellar is the same as getting a job at a leading political party without making money on a fictional pandemic. I just had to change my clothes so as not to come to the tasting looking like a slumdog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fidelio Tailor<\/strong><\/span><\/a> style:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Dear Leader Joe
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Most of the grapes for Roxanich wines come from the western parts of the peninsula. It is a famous part of Istria called “Red Istria”, named after its unusual type of red soil (terra rossa) formed from limestone. Red soil is pH neutral and rich in nutrients and minerals – ideal for growing grapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is also proof to all right-wingers that Red does not always have to be bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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At the Roxanich winery, wines are aged in large wooden containers and barrels. This minimizes the area of contact between wood and grapes and greatly reduces the infusion of wood tannins into wine. The result is wood in its natural role – a micro-oxygenation membrane that delivers oxygen to the wine in a natural and controlled way. There are no synthetic chemicals in the wine cellar. Sulfites are reduced to the minimum necessary level, and barrels are treated exclusively with natural beeswax.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know I sound smart, but it’s not just because I enrolled in a sommelier course at the Croatian Sommelier Club, but also because I copied all this from the Roxanich website.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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It is interesting that the owner of the winery, Mr. Mladen Ro\u017eani\u0107, has the largest collection of Cuban cigars in Croatia. Naturally, they were locked up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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At one point I wanted to seem really smart so I told Soraya, \u201cLook! They have a Japanese garden. \u201d It turned out that they were Georgian amphorae, they just can’t be seen because they are underground. But there is no point in me writing essays about it. If you\u2019re interested in learning something more about amphorae and the wine within them, visit Roxanich Winery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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Of course we ended the tour with a wine tasting. Soraya is a big fan of orange wine, so she liked the orange wine “Ines in white” the most: Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Vermentino, Glera, Friulano, Riesling Italico. My favorite may have been the red wine “Dite”: Teran and Plavac Mali (Dingac).<\/span><\/p>\n

There were more people with us at the tasting, but we saw right away that they had no experience with wines. Unlike them, we are professionals and we politely drank every glass to the end. We were taught as children that wine should not be spilled in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our famous wine expert, Mr. Boris Johnson, once said: “I don’t drink, I taste!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery Photo: @DearLeaderJoe, Flash.hr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Roxanich hotel and winery
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After enjoying food and wine all day, I just wanted to go to my room, watch the rerun of Good Morning Croatia and fall asleep. A big compliment to the hotel designers for designing stairs for us short people aka Hobits to make it easier to climb on the bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery
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The best part of any hotel is the hotel breakfast. Roxanich did not disappoint. As I get older, I watch what I eat. They had all sorts of cereals in jars and all kinds of bran and I very carefully skipped that and focused on Istrian sausages, prosciutto, bacon, eggs, croissants, pancakes and all other foods necessary for my physical development.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Breakfast
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Where I come from, people say that one egg every morning gives strength to the body. Add some bacon on top and there is no better protection from Corona.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Breakfast
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Roxanich hotel and winery – Breakfast
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We wanted to spend a sunny morning at the pool with a beautiful view, maybe go for a massage, sauna, see Motovun on bicycles, but since Dirk has never been to Croatia, which means he has never seen our sea, we decided to make a day trip to Rovinj.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roxanich hotel and winery – Swimming pool
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In order not to turn out that our friend was made up, here are some of his photos. He said he\u2019s not photogenic, but I convinced him not to worry because I\u2019m the self-proclaimed God of photography and for everything else there\u2019s Photoshop.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dirk – Rovinj
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Soraya and I also had to post a photo so that followers on social media know that we have a better life than them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Soraya- Rovinj
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Summer Dear Leader Joe<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear Leader Joe – Rovinj
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Although it was mid-October, it was sunny 15 degrees outside so we had to take the opportunity and jump into the sea. I felt like Vladimir Putin on vacation \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n