Winery Zavjet

Zavjet winery was inspired by the history of this region and by the tradition of the wonderful Montenegrin people. Just a few meters down from the old stone bridge over the Bistrica river a new bridge to the fertile plain of former “royal vineyards” was built.

Winemakers knew that the sun shined there for about 2,300 hours a year or 6.28 hours a day, in July — 330 hours, in August — 325 hours or 10 hours a day during the ripening period. Add the wine growers’ love to growing grapevines and you will get a high-quality premium wine which deserves to be called “Zavjet” owing to its history.

It is said that well-known Montenegrin rulers “WILLED” the vineyards to the church. This gave us the idea and mission for the name “Zavjet” (Will). Under the will of Ivan Crnojevic of 1484 the vineyards near the Crnojevic’s River were given to the Montenegrin monastery.

The wish of wine-makers is that people enjoy each drop produced in the virgin nature of our vineyards, in the cleanest winery and state-of-the-art cellars of “Zavjet” Winery.

“Zavjet” wine is recommended just as the famous Montenegrin healers Ilichkovichs used to recommend Crmnica wine to those who had problems with digestion, nervous, urinary and cardiovascular systems. They were studying healing properties of Crmnica wine and found out that the soil type influences its composition; that wine from a particular vineyard is more efficient for a certain type of disease than grapes grown on other soils. Therefore, Crmnica wine used to be prescribed like a “medicine”.

The contemporary medicine confirms this experience. Wine is known to contain various minerals, phosphorus, iron, potassium, calcium, glycerol, sulfur — depending on the soil. The Ilichkovichs could not conduct such analyses. Basing on the experience that was passed on from generation to generation they were making conclusions which wine from which soil to recommend for particular disease.