David Kušický – Sranda Bio 2024 Veľký Krtíš, Slovakia | Orange
"Sranda" means joke in Slovak, and David Kušický isn't being shy about it — but don't let the name fool you into expecting something throwaway. This is a serious wine wearing a silly hat.
70% Pinot Gris, 30% Gewürztraminer.
The grapes were destemmed and left on their skins for seven days in a plastic vat before pressing, then moved straight into a 710-litre concrete egg, where the wine finished fermenting and aged in full — spontaneous fermentation the whole way through, no inoculation, no shortcuts. Bottled in June 2025: nine months in the egg, another nine in bottle before release. Unfiltered, unfined, no added sulphur.
The result has Pinot Gris doing the heavy lifting on body, with Traminer pushing through in the aroma — that grape's telltale lift of lychee and rose stepping in just as things start to feel a little too composed. Sophisticated and elegant, the label says, but with an orange wine's sense of mischief running underneath. They're not wrong.
Just 950 bottles made.
Drink it with: charcuterie, soft cheeses, spiced roast chicken, or anything that benefits from a wine that doesn't take itself too seriously.
ABV: 12.5% | Sulphites: 30 mg/l total