Herzegovina karst, homeland of thorn-bushes, spruce, heather, wormwood, and horned viper, where the sun ruthlessly heats six months a year and where every lump of soil is the gold worthy homeland of Žilavka too.

The location of Blizanci is unique for the fact that the stone desert turned into an oasis of luxury and beauty. This vineyard was founded in the early 80s of the past century and as such is a rarity in the world. The classic methods of cultivation of land for plantations of vine grapes were replaced here with powerful machines, rippers and bulldozers, and with application of the modern ampelotechnological methods the substratum for plantation of grape vine was created. In the initial phases of foundation of these vineyards, this entrepreneurship seemed an illusion since the quantity of soil in this location is negligible, and the fragmented limestone makes 70% of the substratum. Once more, Žilavka proved to have coalesced with this climate and that its name is compatible with its features. The Blizanci plantation covers the surface of 100 hectares, it’s divided into eleven production units, the size of one unit is 7 to 9 hectares. In each, the varieties of Žilavka and Bena are planted with 90:10 proportion. Plantation spacing is 300x120cm, and the cultivation system used is double horizontal “kordunica” with trunk height of 90cm. Cutting is done in the winter months from December to March, the way of cutting and burden rate render the foreseen crop of about 10 tons per hectare. The grapes in this plantation are characterized by a high degree of sugar. Elaboration is subject to the specificity of the substratum, so that instead of the ordinary autumn and spring ploughing the agitation of the substratum is done with the so called “shizel” cultivators, at the same time fighting the development of weed vegetation. Securing the water regime in the critical phases of the vegetation is solved with the irrigation system “drop by drop”. The grapes from the Blizanci location are elaborated in the wine cellar Čitluk, and with a controlled fermentation a high quality dry white wine is obtained from it. Supposing that the features of the wine greatly depend on the character of the ambience – the stone on which the grapes are produced, the producer came to the idea of naming the wine derived from that location, “stony wine”, production of which began in 1990.