There was a secret. A primal force.
There was a master. The wisdom of ancestors.
A wine was brought to life.
An enchanting wine.

In the Vipava Valley the vine was cultivated already during Roman times as sources confirm. Roman writer Pliny the Elder mentions noble wine from Vipava in his works. An important road ran through the Vipava Valley from Italy to the Panonnia. By this road the Romans built a military settlement in 100 BC on the site of today’s' city of Ajdovščina (Castrum ad fluvium frigidum).
Old place names also remind us of the strong wine-growing tradition in the area. Gorica was probably named for its vineyards (called gorice in Slovene), which surrounded the town. In the coat of arms of Vipava from that time we can see a grape.

In the Vipavsko region the vine was once grown as a hedge plant, on fields in the plains, next to wooden spikes or willows, mulberry trees or other trees and on sloped terraces.

In the Middle Ages Morelli writes about the resolution of the count of Gorica to protect Vipava’s wines in Carinthia and other Austrian lands so that Italian wine would not be sold under that name. The development of wine growing in Carniola in the 17th century was described by Janez Vajkard Valvasor in his work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola. The most detailed description of wine growing in the Vipavsko region is the work of the famous priest from Vipava, Matija Vertovec, who in the 19th century wrote the first Slovene book on wine growing  - Wine-growing for Slovenes, published in 1844.

In order to be more successful farmers and wine growers the people of Vipava founded the Vipava Wine Cooperative. Till the First World War they had planted their vineyards and built their cellars and were able to sell wine even in Ljubljana, Kranj, Klagenfurt, Prague and Moravia. Vipava was the centre of wine-growing development. The wine cellar worked continuously even in the period between both World Wars. During the rich history of the Cooperative the estates merged and divided. In the whirlpool of economic changes at the end of the eighties the company Agroind Vipava 1894 Vipava  came into existence, and ten years later it was transformed into a public limited company.